Jim Rudegeair is a life-long artist who doesn’t create paintings for profit.

He enjoys painting as a hobby and an outlet for his emotional health.

“I think with art it is about seeing things like in a picture, you know, or I’ll just be driving and will see something and think, ‘Well, that’d be a nice painting. That would be cool,’” Rudegeair said. “So it’s kind of that and why I do symbolism, too. ‘Cause that just gets feelings out of you, you know, and I want to sort of make a journal out of it in paint.”

The North Lebanon Township resident is now creating a different kind of painting, something he’s never done before in the 60 years he’s been an artist. For one, he’s used to painting still life and landscapes on flat surfaces, typically canvases or even pieces of wood.

“The surface i

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