I worked for awhile on the oil painting commission of Homer’s Nose With The Oak Grove Bridge (WHAT shall this one be titled?? Snozz Rock? Sue’s View? The Nose And The Bridge? The Bridge and the Nose? Don’t Blow Your Nose On My Bridge?) And thus, we have successfully covered the great desert of a […]
7 Things I Learned in June
I could be doing something called “affiliate marketing” on my blog by listing products I use and like and then putting the link on the site so that if you click and buy, I would earn money. It is called “passive income”, but that term fails to take into account all the work of signing […]
Art: Inspired By Mineral King
After 7-8 months of painting toward a show about Mineral King and (almost) in Mineral King, it is tomorrow! Is it considered shouting to use bold type? Or is that only for capital letters? I’ve always always always considered italics to be whispering, so maybe this paragraph will be more soothing to your ears. Four artists […]
What Else Did I Decide?
Remember that long list of things to do a few days ago? I began with the oil painting commission of Homer’s Nose/The Oak Grove Bridge because it wasn’t too hot yet in the painting workshop with the swamp cooler running, there will be a check when I am finished, the heat is coming and will […]
What Did I Decide?
Not talking audibly to myself anymore, decisions made, work begun on the oil painting commission of Homer’s Nose with the Oak Grove Bridge. Madame Customer stopped by my studio to retrieve her photos and saw the scary version. She made another change to our plan, and I was eager to try it. Her suggestion was […]
What Are You Doing??
Happy Birthday, Deanne!! “What are you doing?” is a question directed to me, not to you. Some days I don’t know what to do. It results in talking to myself, occasionally in an audible voice. This isn’t because there isn’t anything pressing; it is because I can’t figure out how to prioritize. What would you […]
Instruct Me, Please
Thirty-three years ago some friends and I tried rock climbing, that rappelling thing with ropes and harnesses. My friend was suspended over space and she looked up at the guy (with barely contained fear) who was supposedly teaching us and said quite calmly, “Instruct me, please!” Today I want to instruct you a bit about […]
Do You Love To Read?
No Mineral King today – I haven’t been for a couple of weeks because I went to Hume Lake. I love to read. Do you? Some of my favorite podcasts are about books and reading: What Should I Read Next, By the Book (the one with all the cussing), Just the Right Book, From the Front Porch. […]
Random Information
Sometimes I have a head full of random facts to tell you that don’t want to wait for the end of the month round-up of things learned in the month. The Oak Grove Bridge, my favorite subject for drawing and painting, will be “retrofitted”, a fancy term that means reinforced to make it safe while […]
Starting Over Again
That is the name of a country song by Dolly Parton. Only the title applies to this post. If my record keeping is correct (and it rarely is, but closies count here), then I am beginning oil painting #75 in 2018. I didn’t mean to begin another oil painting, because hot weather is here and […]