Leslie Apple
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Arts
- Occupation: Artist/Graphic Designer
- Location: DE : United States
About Me
Portrait Artist - "My passion is painting pets, people and personalities."
Interests
- Dogs - especially Airedales & Petit Basset Griffon Vendéens (PBGVs)
- art
- jazz
- classic movies - especially silent films
- cooking and baking (especially Cajun & Creole food)
- writing
- designing hand-knitted clothing
- politics
Favorite Movies
- Marx Brothers movies - Duck Soup is a favorite.
- Preston Sturgess films - The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton films. Kid Brother & Speedy are my favorite Lloyd films.
- The Horse's Mouth with Alec Guinness. Great film about artists/art and creativity.
- Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise.
- W.C. Fields' Man on the Flying Trapeze & The Bank Dick.
- Wyler's Best Years of Our Lives.
Favorite Music
- Jazz
- Blues and Classical. I even paint to music and have been working on a series of paintings (over several years) that are my artistic responses to music. I love the jazz piano & arrangements (plus the non tonal compositions) of Mel Powell.
Favorite Books
- Why Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin
- It's All Over But the Shouting By Rick Bragg
- Thomas Mann's Dr. Fautus
