"Vanishing Nickel Coke"This is the watercolor that launched a thousand ships. Accepted as one of 300 from over 10,000 entries to New Yorks prestigious American Watercolor Exhibit in 1976, Vanishing Nickel Coke was my first painting of brick wall signs, now a trademark for me. Interestingly, I discovered this sign on a wall in my hometown of Kirksville, Missouri, a wall I had passed by many times only two blocks from my house. One day, however, when I actually saw the wall