My church* hired a new pastor, and things are rockin’ and rollin’ (not literally). Many changes are taking place, for which I am grateful, excited to be part of, and will tell you about the ones that are relevant to this blog. This room is called the “multipurpose room”. For quite a few years, it […]
The Building in the Library Mural
When I was designing the Ivanhoe Library mural, I dug around for photos of a building that is cemented in my memory as a beautiful old structure. (Apparently, I’ve loved old buildings all my life.) I found a photo of the Ivanhoe School auditorium in Laura Spalding’s book Ivanhoe—the Town with Three Names: Klink, Venice […]
Library Mural, Day Thirteen, FINISHED!
The mural looked like this when I arrived in Ivanhoe (photo from the end of the previous painting day—I arrived early enough that the light wasn’t yet on the mural.) After talking to an old friend who remembered more details than I, I added a hint of a door on the porch of the old […]
Exploding Head
Not literally. Figuratively. There is a difference in these two terms despite the language butchering (figurative, not literal) that is commonplace. Using a template to convert a book from Word to InDesign is supposed to be easy. Sure, if everything works. When does that happen?? Converting the InDesign file to a PDF for proofreading is […]
Quickity Painting Session
This stack of ten canvases was staring at me accusingly. So rude. The only way I could get them to shut up was to start working on them. I spread out the smallest canvases with their photos, mixed up a pile of sky color to cover eight of the beginning backgrounds, along with a nondescript […]
Red-Neck Ramblings
I could be oil painting but seem to want to pull weeds, write blog posts, text with a friend about a difficult situation, make yogurt, and write a few letters. We have a bit of a situation, but as a wise friend has said, “When you have a problem and you have money to fix […]
Planning Session for Summer Selling Season
Deciding what to paint for the Silver City Store this coming summer felt like a daunting task. There is no excuse for procrastination, and the better I plan, the better the sales. So, suck it up, Buttercup. The first step in planning is to look at the available Mineral King paintings. (For my out-of-the-area readers, […]
Library Mural, Day Twelve
Last week I did not work on the mural for reasons that are irrelevant to my public life, as shared here with my tens of readers. The week before last, actually, since I show you on Mondays what I did on Fridays. Never mind. This is how it looked last; it’s kind of hard to […]
Finally Painting Sequoias Again
After a couple of weeks of messing around, I finally planted my feet in front of the easels to complete these three Sequoia paintings. First, I dabbled on this one day, and then said, “Never mind, I’d rather [walk] [pull weeds] [go to the library] [anything else]”. I girded my loins, and returned to the […]
February Around Here
This is the page for February in my 2026 calendar. I drew this in pencil (duh) from several photos taken a short distance up North Fork Drive in Three Rivers. The original is on a piece of 11×14” archival paper. It is for sale. $375 (plus tax if you live in California) or make me […]