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the garage and in George’s hair.” Landscapes and seascapes are her favorite subjects, although she’ll tackle anything except portraits. “The sub¬ jects,” she says flatly, “look as though they’ve been dead for several hours by the time I’ve finished with them.” Dinah took to painting three years ago when she first saw some of Van Johnson’s work and thought she’d have a go at it “just for fun.” She promptly went out and bought all the wrong equipment and started throw¬ ing paint on canvas. Her first effort was so loaded with protruding paint that it looked like something out of a 3-D movie. “She didn’t paint it,” Robert Cummings was moved to com¬ ment, “she chewed it.” Ijcssons Too ("onipetitive She started taking lessons about a year ago but gave it up in short or¬ der. “Too competitive,” she says. “All I want out of it is a hobby, not a mission.” Dinah is not particularly enthusias¬ tic over her own work. She gets a big kick out of doing a canvas but wastes little time looking at it once it’s fin¬ ished. Her favorite is a seascape of 17 Mile Drive at Pebble Beach, Cali¬ fornia, which she sketched roughly during her vacation a year ago and painted when she got home. “I have to see my subject,” she says. “I’m not very good at dreaming something up.” Keeps Her Favorites Another favorite is one of her most recent efforts, a still life, of a vase of flowers done especially for TV GUIDE. In answer to a tactful question as to who at TV GUIDE was going to get it, she replied promptly, “Nobody. It’s one of the few really good things I’ve ever done and I’m going to keep it myself.” Actually, it’s not really a very good painting at all. Dinah has sold only two of her paintings. Selling them was—and still is—the farthest thought from her mind. One was snapped up at an ex¬ hibition of stars’ canvasses, much to her surprise. The second, a portrait of her daughter. Missy, was bought by a friend. Dinah would have given it away, but the friend said sharply, “Never give away a painting. Keep it or sell it.” She sold it. Dinah hanging a scene she dashed off in less than a hour, using a photo as a model.