Ron Rodecker says he got into art because he didn’t want his epitaph to read “Should have been an artist.” So in the late ’70s, and in the middle of his career in education, Rodecker began painting.

Teacher, longtime Sawdust exhibitor and creator of PBS’ “Dragon Tales” Ron Rodecker returns this summer to Laguna Beach. Rodecker is the guest artist at the show where his Dragon’s Castle was for ...

The way Grass Valley artist Ron Rodecker remembers it, his triple bypass surgery in 1977 did two things. It convinced the now-octogenarian of his own mortality and, believing he had not done enough to ...