Feb 28 2011
What a strikingly beautiful weekend! This type of day is why February is my favorite month. This is the depot where the workshop was held: This is the mirror so I could show the massive crowds my work and they could watch me produce it. Nice idea, but there were about 9 folks who braved [...]
Feb 24 2011
It is cold out. Today I needed to do work in the studio and also paint (and run around, but that isn’t part of this story). My studio is a little office/gallery where I do paperwork, phone calls, packaging reproduction prints and cards, and, believe it or not, actually draw! When I began painting, it [...]
Feb 22 2011
Sometimes I am just amazed (there’s an overused word!) at the places there are to discover here in Three Rivers. Today Michael and I parked at the uppermost marina on Kaweah Lake (or is it Lake Kaweah?) and went walking upstream. This is an area that only recently became part of the lake, due to [...]
Feb 19 2011
According the the web definition it is ” ‘best practice’ tourism that sustains or even enhances the geographical character of a place, such as its culture, environment, heritage and well being of the residents”. What does that have to do with cabinart? The National Geographic Society is making websites of maps for geotourism. Currently they [...]
Feb 17 2011
Seventh in the series “Thoughtful Thursdays” A simple way of categorizing artists is to divide the approaches to art into 3 varieties: those who make art for fun, those who make art as a secondary occupation, and those who earn a living from their art. Those who make art for fun undoubtedly have it the [...]
Feb 16 2011
Have a look at this painting: Say what? Wasn’t this painting of the bridge much further along? Indeed it was. It was sitting on a tabletop easel on that round white table, just as you see it in this photo. I put another painting on the folding easel (the one with aspen trees) and set [...]
Feb 15 2011
My sleeper is broken. In the olden days of my life, 9 hours a night was a requirement. For the last several years, I feel lucky to get 8. What does one do in the middle of the night if sleep won’t happen? I think, I pray, I plan, and sometimes I just give up. [...]
Feb 14 2011
Because there are flowers in the yard and the flowering quince is coming soon. Because it is green around the studio. Because the daylight lasts longer, the sky is blue, and the cats don’t beg to stay in the house during the day. Because Kaweah is waiting for me to go paint. And although she [...]
Feb 12 2011
On February 25 and 26, I will be giving a demonstration and workshop in Porterville for their very active art association. There is still space if you’d like to register. The cost is $30 for members of the P’ville Art Assn. and $35 for non-members. I may have mentioned a time or two that I [...]
Feb 11 2011
MA’s little iron birds are back home with her, and now she has this little guy too! That was a fun one.
