Because I have been helping people get their books printed but am not selling them myself, it is good to show people where to buy these books. Therefore, I have a new page on my website listing the books and the links where they are for sale. This is a screenshot of my homepage and […]
Mural Dedicated
It was called an unveiling, but it was really a dedication, a symbolic presentation to the town of Ivanhoe, a “Here, this is for you and you are welcome, be proud!” (I wanted to add, “and don’t let it get egged!”) Lots of hoorah, thank you to this personage, thank you to that personage, acknowledge […]
MURAL “UNVEILING” TODAY
In case you are curious, this is some of the area around Ivanhoe. I really love it there, which you may have figured out. Of course I also loved living in Lemon Cove, and now I love living in Three Rivers. (Don’t move here—remember that we are fat, have diabetes, the air is bad, and […]
Oil Painting Some Local Stuff
What word did people use before “stuff” became so ubiquitous? A little more work on these quail made it good enough to sign. More work ahead on this one: The scanner could not do this justice, so I put it in the sunshine and took a photo with my inferior phone camera. And this one […]
The Business of Art | Many words today
This might take more time to read than you want to spend. You also might not find it interesting. You can skip it today—I’ll still be your friend. In thinking about all the distractions and how long it has been since I last painted, I realized several things, the most glaring that. . . . […]
De-egging a Mural
Never before (as far as I know) has one of my murals been messed with. I can’t say that anymore. A couple of weeks ago, some stupid hon-yock threw an egg into the sky of my Ivanhoe mural. So, I told the librarian to have county maintenance see if it would wash off first, and […]
Painting Three Rivers in Oil
We last saw this painting of Alta Peak and the Kaweah River (just “Kaweah River” without any identifying titles because here all the forks have come together) looking hopeful, but with much work ahead. It was time, nay, past time to get this done. (So many distractions!) Here you can see how I progress from […]
MURAL UNVEILING
“Unveiling” is obviously a euphemism here. Murals are highly visible, and no one threw a tarp over the one on the side of the Ivanhoe library. (However, someone did throw an egg on it and tomorrow I will go touch it up. Sigh.)
What This Central Calif. Foothill Artist Does in a Day
Not gonna bore you with mundane details of life, just the productive and mildly interesting aspects that often fill a workday for me. First I met some friends early and we slammed out 4 miles on foot. Sometimes I don’t have anyone to walk with, and so I pick shorter steeper walks. On this particular […]
Late Spring Wildflowers in Three Rivers
We had a perfectly beautiful spring day in April after March’s unseasonable heat wrecked the green and prematurely caused most wildflowers to croak. See? a perfect spring day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TLC!!