As a Central Calif. artist in a rural place without galleries, I rely on little art festivals, craft fairs, boutiques and other events to meet the public and sell my work. It is lovely to hide away at home in my studio, but people will forget about me and my work, no one will want […]
Summer Sales, Part Two
Did you forget that I was showing you the Mineral King oil paintings that sold in Silver City over the summer? Here is the other half: As before, the sizes shown here are a little whacky in terms of how they are relative to one another. I was shocked by the stellar rise of the […]
Closing the Cabin in Mineral King
We usually choose a weekend in the middle of October to close our cabin for the season. The date is not weather based, but instead it is based on what fits our schedule, that of our neighbors, and how badly we just want to put away our duffle bags for the year and STAY HOME. […]
Summer Sales
Since 2010, the Silver City Store has been selling my oil paintings. It began as a tentative experiment, with no confidence that visitors up that rough road would want to spend their hard-earned dollars on original oil paintings rather than (or in addition to) tee shirts and post cards. The highest number of paintings that sold […]
Boutique Ahead, Paint Fast
The Lemon Cove Womans Club’s Harvest Boutique will be on Saturday. This coming Saturday, October 20, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Gotta get some things ready to sell! These fruit and blossom paintings are on 5×7″ boards, to be displayed on mini easels. This is how they looked after the first pass over the […]
A Tree Grows
While I was growing a tree, this was happening outside the painting workshop.
Little Boutique in Lemon Cove
Happy Birthday, Jim! (We’re still in the Fs. . .) Ever been to Lemon Cove? If you’ve gone to Sequoia from Visalia, you’ve passed through it. I think of it as Lemon Curve. . . a few curves on the highway, and you are outta there. There’s a little boutique at the Lemon Cove Womans […]
Quick Trip to Mineral King
Happy Birthday, Anne!! Trail Guy and I had plans for 2 more stays in Mineral King before closing the cabin. Then he got a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract so we adjusted our plans. Then I got it. Well, bummer, but I still had to make a trip up the hill to photograph […]
Two Gas Pumps
“Two Pencil and Colored Pencil Drawings of One Old Gas Pump” is too long of a title for a blog post, but it is more accurate than “Two Gas Pumps”. Let’s review: Now, new pictures for you. I can do a tiny bit better. #1 needs more separation between the closer and the more distant […]
The Rest of the Sequoia Oil Painting Saga
SS brought me this oil painting: I thought it was this one: Then I thought it was this one: I can’t find the photo that I used to paint any of these, so I have to rely on my experience of painting Sequoia trees to just improve the painting. Here it is wet on the […]