Making It in Maine Self-Taught Painter in Bangor Exhibits an Eye for Microcosms

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Don Joslyn's desk sits under a window framed by pink-trimmed white curtains. In the living room, where he paints his meticulous miniatures, his two daughters, 8-year-old Maykala and Melissa, 11, barrel downstairs and race through. A fishbowl, containing a lazy- looking goldfish, sitting next to the family's TV set, completes the homey scene.

Joslyn, whose minute creations were featured last month on "Good Morning America" and have been in demand in the online store www.stupid.com, has good vision. The Bangor man merely takes off his wire-rimmed glasses to paint scenes of Lilliputian lighthouses half the size of a postage stamp.

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Making It in Maine Self-Taught Painter in Bangor Exhibits an Eye for Microcosms

Joslyn works by day at OHI, a nonprofit corporation supporting people with disabili...

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