While I was painting, there were 2 men working on my real studio. I paint in another building, a giant workshop where it doesn’t matter if I drop wet things, and where there is a little heater with a shelf in front of it for drying, along with pegboard for hanging wet paintings and two […]
Back to Mineral King Painting Factory
I am back to Mineral King, figuratively speaking, not literally. There is finally some snow up there, and I’m happy to be here in the painting studio, painting summer scenes of Mineral King. First, look who showed up! Piper and his brother arrived on a Friday, and Piper decided to get acquainted with us on Sunday. […]
Random Roundup
We got rain and snow and clear bright days. I painted 3 poppies, thinking they would be quick and easy. Fall down laughing. I have had to reshape and reshape and relayer and wait and relayer yet again and on and on and on. . . this is just one of the three poppies that […]
Odd Job With a Goose
This is Tony’s wooden goose with a coat of primer on it. He didn’t give me any instructions other than to paint the goose. I found several helpful photos of Canada geese to work from, with visible head, neck, wing tops, wing bottoms, tail and the back.(What did people do before The Google came along to […]
Birdland, Third Day
Who knew that birds would show up in such numbers in my art business?? My friend’s husband, Tony, asked if I could paint a wooden goose for him. A what, Tony? A goose! He didn’t specify type, so I had to consult The Google for ideas. I told him it will be a Canada Goose […]
Birdland, Second Day
I haven’t returned to Mineral King yet, either metaphorically or literally. (And unlike many people today, I use the word “literally” to mean literally, actually, for real.) Instead, I stayed in Birdland, working on chickens and a great blue heron. Meanwhile, there is a quail wondering when it will receive its additional feathers layers, and 4 […]
2 Items, One Personal, One Business
I love lists. Today’s contains one personal item and one business item. Today we have 2 kittens coming from Tulare. An employee of Sequoia National Park will be delivering them on her way to work. One is all black; one is a tuxedo. They are already named, but perhaps we will choose other monikers. (Isn’t […]
8 Things I Learned in February
I began writing this post on February 5, and was quite happily surprised that I learned the first 3 things on this list so soon in the month. I think we all learn things constantly; writing them down helps us realize it is happening. Young Miner’s Lettuce tastes good. I’d heard this most of my […]
More Blogging Thoughts
I googled “middle-aged bloggers” and found several. One site posted an invitation for middle-aged bloggers to comment and put their site links in the comments, so I clicked through and read some of them. They are sort of boring. Lots of talk about why they started blogging, talk about their grandchildren, their new lives with […]
Barn Raising
Just kidding. I’m not raising a barn, just drawing it. Well, maybe I am raising it out of the vast whiteness of the paper. I received these 2 photos along with many instructions. The top photo is how the barn looks now; the lower one is how it looked when the customer was a child […]