Here are the promised 7 observations and thoughts about the 45th Annual Redbud Festival in Three Rivers. There weren’t very many vendors and visitation was low except for one exciting surge. I don’t worry about low attendance, because it gives me more time to learn who people are and to spend time hearing their stories. […]
Redbud Report 1
The 45th Annual Redbud Festival in Three Rivers took place on a very nice day, not crazy hot or cold as we’ve experienced some years. Today I’ll show you the beginnings of Saturday. Tomorrow I’ll tell you a list of 7 observations and experiences.
45th Annual Redbud Festival
There will be 4×6″ original oil paintings at the Redbud Festival, priced for $40 each instead of $50 as a SHOW SPECIAL! Here are 2 samples of the 8 available paintings:
Keep Thinking
Yesterday I told you of some good ideas that came to me while I was organizing my storage shelves. Today I will tell you of two that aren’t complete. They are good ideas in terms of how to spend my time and energy with my art business, but will take more thinking on how to […]
Good Ideas
Lately I have preferred to work in silence instead of listening to podcasts, music, or the radio. I seem to need lots of quiet in order to think. I don’t have an agenda; instead, I just let the thoughts roam freely, and sometimes good ideas show up. When I photograph my paintings on the easel […]
New & Improved
In spite of the common practice of completing a plein air painting alla prima I think that many of my paintings in that style definitely need touching up. It takes awhile for me to see what I can fix, and it takes wisdom to know if it would be an improvement. Today’s post shows the before, contrasted with the “New & Improved” versions of several of my plein air attempts. New and improved? or just new? The verdict isn’t in yet. […]
Plein Air Painting in the House
A teacher once called me a “maverick”, because I kept testing the boundaries of the assignments. Gretchen Rubin would classify me as a “Questioner”, one who wants to know why and only does things that make sense. Last week we were admiring the view out of the living room window. While standing outside, the view […]
Plein Air Style in the Studio
There is a scene I love, something I have wanted to paint for several years. It embodies the best of Tulare County to me – agriculture and the mountains. I’m not sure where the best place is to set up to paint this, I don’t remember where I was, and I don’t want to go […]
Thoughts on Plein Air Painting
A friend wanted to hear my thoughts on plein air painting, so I wrote to her about it. Several other friends said they hadn’t known what the words meant until I started my detour down that road. (Or maybe it will become my main road. More will be revealed in the fullness of time.) Plein […]
What I Learned in April
The summary of what I learned in April doesn’t seem to fit my normal end of month list. A paragraph will suffice. In April I learned how to plein air paint. I also learned to use a cell phone, how to navigate the world of travel that is now dependent on cell phone ownership, usage, […]