Polishing up a Few Paintings
As I plan for the solo show at CACHE in autumn, there are a handful of paintings that I want to improve. Finesse. Polish. Tweak.
April 26, 2024
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Jana Botkin's Blog
Posting 5 days a week about the realities of earning a living as an artist in Tulare County, California's fly-over country.
Farewell to Spring in Three Rivers, Part II
By the time you are reading this, I hope to be on a flight to Texas. The way flights get cancelled these days, who knows?
April 25, 2024
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Farewell to Spring in Three Rivers
Maybe. Maybe not. However, I am heading to Texas tomorrow*, and when I return, I think the green in Three Rivers will be finished, or
April 24, 2024
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So Proud of my Drawing Students
For 30 years, I have been helping people learn to draw. The classes are small: 4-8 people together for an hour per week, each one
April 23, 2024
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Painting With a Few Interruptions
Another beautiful spring day, accompanied by the desire to just be outside and pull weeds. Nope. It’s a workday, chica. But wait! There’s an eclipse!
April 22, 2024
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Finished Pencil Drawing of a Cabin
I sure do know how to stretch a story out. . . have you noticed how many people use the cliché “long story short”, and
April 19, 2024
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Drawing a Cabin in Pencil, 2
The Minnesota customer replied quickly and thoroughly to my inquiry about the two different versions of the cabin. I couldn’t tell if there were actually
April 18, 2024
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Drawing a Cabin in Pencil
Which of the three sketches of a Minnesota cabin did the two sisters choose? They chose A! (The exclamation mark is because that was the
April 17, 2024
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Cabinart = Art of a Cabin
Drawing cabins in pencil is the way I started my art business. Now I spend 90% of my artmaking time as an oil painter, so
April 16, 2024
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Another Big Tree
Tall narrow canvases with oil paintings of Sequoia trees sell steadily, so I paint them steadily. Sentinel Tree, 6×18″, $165 This one is modeled after
April 15, 2024
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