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What Is The California Artist Doing?

Perhaps you’ve been wondering if I am still a California artist. Cruising to Alaska, having fun in Mineral King; is this chick even working any more??

I am working diligently on The Cabins of Wilsonia. You can follow the progress on my other blog, called The Cabins of Wilsonia. (Sometimes my own cleverness just slays me.) Actually, you can follow my thoughts about the process, because I’m not showing everything I’ve finished. Gotta have a little mystery, so people will want to buy the book!

My drawing quota for August has been met, and now it is time to work on some commissions.

I have 2 cabins in Wilsonia to draw that are outside the scope of the book. This is good, because income is good. This is not good, because doggonit, I will have 230+ cabin drawings and now I’m adding to the + side of things!

Nope. not complaining. It is tricky to choose the exact cabins and views that will please the cabin folks and also keep the book from looking all samey-samey on every page.

The entry-way door of this cabin is interesting to me.

Wilsonia cabin door pencil drawing

It is also interesting to the people who own the cabin, but they are more interested in seeing the cabin in its entirety. So, I’ve done a couple of sketches so they can choose. The differences between the two choices are subtle – can you spot them?

sketches for a pencil drawing commission of a cabin

5 Comments

  1. Diane and Cheryl, I haven’t heard back from the customer, but I hope she chooses the one with the flag in color too.
    Jennifer, happy to be of service in the grin department. Makes me happy to make others happy. Thanks for stopping by!

  2. … agree with Cheryl … the flag … i also choose the second one …

  4. tree on lower … flag on lower … the lower left window on upper sketch looks like it is reflecting something … something appears added to lower top right of the door … I love the flag … just the hint of colour … I would want a sketch of what my cabin really looks like … warts and all –

  5. Love the addition of the flag as well as the tree on the left side in the second one. If I were the chooser, I’d choose the second one 🙂

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