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>$ Friday, November 21, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5 hird-grade drawing gave tA&M illustrator an early start nd of Si ,, , j, Deborah Odum Hut- ulizaii( j nS()Ilj a 197Q Cum Laude grad- By Anne Dejoie Reporter .n third grade, she drew an illus- 0 slreil ®n of a grasshopper from an en- tnat spiMfoedia picture and labeled its H Today Hon, a If uses an te of Texas A&M, works as an il- IIl) P^ trator at the A&M College of uchbiol Jcine. ms andH e grasshopper drawing, Hut- BSon said, was the first drawing atthelHmembers being proud of, add- 1th Sciei® al i( was probably an omen. >ne °f Bit now Hutchinson’s paintings ountrv!|u(le watercolor landscapes and rm elea’Hpes. Her paintings are on dis- le in spiL Monday through Dec. 5 in the H of the Medical Sciences build- techm , | )Ca t e( i at Agronomy Road and ic cwraHvay 60. 1’he lobby is open to culturei public Monday through Friday ublf K )tn ,Sa.m. to 5 p.m. 'age," If Hutchinson’s work has been ex- Ited in Italy and in Houston. Her " m P' intings are included in the perma- nfiedi^tjcollections of the College of irth.viHine and the Medical Sciences ilding. lepunlihr currently is employed by the Mateuiigge of Medicine as an Audiovi- hundtiHfechnician and Illustrator for finudical Communications. ■e price of her art ranges from lo $500. She said she sold her (painting, a still life of some iwars, to a neighbor. "1 [couldn’t believe it,” she said, bard to believe that someone really want my work. Ijoveto sell them (paintings), but I’tjlike to take the money.” ^Hei parents are extremely sup- ftil’e of her work, which is one reason for her A&M exhibit, she said. “I wanted to see how the public would react,” Hutchinson said. “I wanted some objective opinions be sides those of my family.” Hutchinson said she was asked in August to do the exhibit and that she was “super excited.” “I immediately got started on framing and matting my work,” she said. Though she’s entered one or two pieces in art shows before, Flutchin- son said that she has never had her own exhibit until now. “I hope this exhibit is the start of something for me,” she said. Classifying her artwork as some impressionism, some expressionism and some realism, Hutchinson said that she prefers watercolor and drawing to oil painting. “With watercolor, part of the painting is accidental,” she said. Hutchinson said she tries to ex press her feelings through her work. She said much of her work fo cuses on human aspects. She concen trates on the face, especially the eyes, she said, because they reveal the most about a person. Hutchinson said that she can’t sit before a blank page and just start painting — some inspiration is needed. She said she likes to travel and that she makes it a point to look for ideas while traveling. Many of the sights inspire her, she said. “But as long as someone says they like it (the work), that’s inspiration enough,” she said. Hutchinson grew up in Houston and went to Memorial High School sports such as tennis and softball. She went to Baylor University in 1975 and studied pre-medicine and played on the tennis team. She said when she didn’t do as well as she had hoped in her biology classes, she transferred to A&M, where her best friend was attending school. At A&M, Hutchinson joined the tennis team for two years and stud ied sociology. But she said she soon became disillusioned with her major. After graduation, Hutchinson stud ied drawing at the University of Ha waii. When she returned to A&M, she visited environmental design profes sor Joe Hutchinson, who had been one of her favorite professors. She later married him. Hutchinson said her artwork helps to build self-confidence. “I’m OK just like I am,” Hutchin son said, adding that even if no one else sees a painting, she can still take pleasure in viewing it herself. Because of her job with the A&M College of Medicine, Hutchinson said that most of her personal art work is done on weekends. “It kind of goes in spurts,” she said. After a full day’s work of draw ing, she said she doesn’t always feel like going home and drawing more. Much of Hutchinson’s job at A&M consists of illustrating charts and graphs, much like she illustrated the grasshopper so many years ago. “My job is unique,” she said. “I probably couldn’t get this job at an other school without a medical de gree or an art degree. College Sta tion is the last place I thought I’d live. It’s not totally what I want to do, where she expanded her interests in but it’s OK for now.” them ‘dm:| the la® des til of AUSTIN (AP) — Lawyers for the es to He and Met rill Lynch scrutinized leskesifltw Thursday to see if the firm peak! il renege on a bargain-basement all. H bid that turned out to be a ulti-million dollar blunder, ofesso But spokesmen for Attorney Gen- mimlHim Mattox and state Treasurer 'iliven iwRichards said that as of Thurs- nptsK iy afternoon, no state officials had predn und a reason why Merrill Lynch iveniK d a partner would have to be al- ived out of the deal. sandti.At issue is an extremely low bid on profc tte bonds submitted Tuesday by Lynch seeks out from deal j- the syndicate made up of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and Dillon Read & Co. Their bid was for $.‘100 million in “tax anticipation notes” auctioned by the state to raise money to meet cash flow problems. The syndicate’s bid on one pack age of bonds included an offer to charge the state as little as 0.03 per cent interest. After the syndicate’s bid was selected as the lowest, offi cials for the company said the low bid was a result of a mathematical er ror by their staff, which meant to bid between 3.75 and 4 percent. 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