Bill Schumm prepped a piece of paper for his next piece of art on Saturday at his house on 10th Street in Bowling Green.

Schumm said that he saw a scene of a barn and a field of flowers two years ago and gave himself the goal of painting the scene. But he wasn’t an artist at the time.

“This goal inspired me to start doing art,” Schumm said. “I am a self-taught artist. It’s a gift — nothing but a gift.”

He put the finishing touches on that piece of art, “The Barn,” on Sunday, he said.

“I want to sell as much art as I can to enhance the human condition,” Schumm said.

Schumm said one art piece that does that is his “clockstruments.” He takes pieces of instruments and a clock and combines them.

“It’s interesting to find parts of an instrument that create incredible feeling,” he said. “I want to put them in people’s houses so they can share that feeling.”

Schumm said his inspiration for his clockstruments came in part from his two sons, Kurt and Koby, who are both musicians.

Schumm said he also created an instrument by combining a kazoo with a horn end, usually the end of the bugle, which he has named “Kazoogles.”

“I do whatever I can every day in this environment to let people know that they’re loved,” Schumm said.

Schumm said he has two pieces for sale at the Tanglez Hair Studio LLC at 2530 Scottsville Road. One of those pieces, entitled “Natalie Portman,” is priced at $550 dollars.

One of Schumm’s clockstruments is made out of a guitar his daughter, Kelly, gave him.

“The guitar is for my daughter for her birthday,” Schumm said.

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