In one of Wayne Thiebaud’s final interviews, the famously upbeat, self-deprecating artist reflected on seven decades of refining his technique as a painter and yet still feeling like a student.

Wayne Thiebaud may be best ... like a view from a roller coaster. Thiebaud sometimes paints patches of fields in unexpected hues—candy pink or baby blue—with tiny stands of trees and toy ...

The lives and work of two beloved Sacramento artists, Gregory Kondos and Wayne Thiebaud, are being celebrated ... and small brushstrokes of dark blue, teal, yellow and purple in the trees.