• RAIN AND SNOW! • Blog-reading friends • Supportive husband who helps me set up boutiques/bazaars/fairs/festivals/shows, keeps the home fires burning, and fixes dinners • Pizza for Thanksgiving dinner • A great family (who doesn’t mind if we have pizza for Thanksgiving) • Three kitties • Tulare County library reservation/delivery system • Terrific drawing students […]
Painting Christmas Ornaments. . .
. . . is a little tricky, because they are LITTLE! Those little 2×2″ canvases are tricky tricky tricky. Small metal clothespins fit inside the back, serving as handles while painting and a way to secure them to the pegboard for drying. Alas, I only have 3, but there are 6 little canvases to paint. […]
Layer By Layer
Besides fruit and frost protection and a signature, this one needs a title. It might also need to have the fog or smoke removed, and a bit more texture and detail in all the layers of hills and mountains.
Changing Spaces
The Three Rivers Veterans Memorial Building is a regular location for art and craft bazaars. I’ve been participating here for many years in many different places in the building. Every year I have slightly different merchandise, different paintings, different ideas for display, and it presents a new puzzle each time. It is all part of […]
Friday Fun
Trail Guy went to Mineral King last week. This is how it looks at this time of year. That hardly qualifies as “Friday Fun”. What does? How about Pippin in the leaves! See you tomorrow at the Three Rivers Memorial Building for the annual Holiday Bazaar, 9-4!
Decisions and Completions
If these recently completed paintings are dry enough, I will bring them to the Holiday Bazaar on Saturday, November 23, at the Three Rivers Memorial Building, 10-4. Paintings ALWAYS look better in person – come see for yourself!
Small Decision, Small Success
When your Central California artist is undecided, she practices something called “productive procrastination”. Yardening for a friend, making yogurt, running errands, visiting with a far-away friend through the wonders of technology, reporting 10 robocalls to the Do Not Call Registry Complaint page, and then I saw Tucker outside the kitchen door. He is so shy […]
Indecision
“Indecision” sounds a lot like “indigestion” which sounds a bit like “indigent” which means “poor enough to need help from others”. These paintings might be poor enough to need help from others. I can’t decide if they are finished, if there is a way to improve them, or if they just need to be painted […]
A Busy Month (and you are invited)
November is my busiest month. For the first time in several years, I have no selling events in Visalia. However, there are plenty of other opportunities to see me and my art: a list might be the easiest way to see all the upcoming events.1. Holiday Bazaar, Three Rivers Veterans Memorial Building, Saturday, November 23, […]
And Another Big One
I decided this one is finished, except for all the busy extras like painting the edges, adding a wire to the back, titling, photographing, drying, entering into inventory, on and on and on. I started another one, this time 24×24″. The most difficult part about this one will be making this scene look as beautiful […]