This year I have set the goal of finishing all the Mineral King oil paintings well before the season begins. The Silver City Store has been selling my oil paintings since 2010, and it is good for them, for me, and for the customers. The past 8 years have provided a good idea of what sells […]
Keep Painting, Central Calif. Artist
That’s me, talking to myself. Keep painting, Central California artist, keep painting! I messed up and ordered 4×6″ canvases instead of 6×6″. This means I have some adjusting to do and some decisions ot make. The first step is to see how it is to paint on this size and shape.
What is Art Administration?
I don’t know what “art administration” means. Doesn’t it sound important? Most days, Trail Guy asks me what I plan to do. Often the answer is “paint”; about every two weeks or so I say “administrative tasks”. What this means is tending to the business of an art business. Going to lovely places and painting […]
Mineral King Oil Painting Factory 4
This is an 8×8″ of my tied-in-second-place Mineral King oil painting subject, the Honeymoon Cabin. It was part of the resort; then Disney bought up parts of the resort in hopes of building a ski area. That didn’t happen, and now this little cabin is a museum of artifacts and photos of Mineral King. You […]
Mineral King Oil Painting Factory 3
Will these Mineral King oil paintings ever be finished? Yes. Then I’ll have to decide what to paint next. I’ll still need more Mineral King for my inventory (I’m painting ahead for the first time ever – finally have learned that summer starts on Memorial Day weekend and this year I will NOT be surprised.) […]
Mineral King Oil Painting Factory 2
Can you see that several paintings have some new paint on the mountains now? I paint from back to front; that means sky first, the farthest mountains next. Wait! What is this? I decided to finish the largest one first. Then, I got close to finishing the 2nd largest one. The need to get some something […]
Field Trip
Last Sunday afternoon, we drove down to Lake Kaweah to go walking among the cockleburs. I think the dam was built in 1962 or ’63, so I don’t remember a time when it wasn’t there. It is sort of ugly, but interesting at the same time. There are nicer places to walk in Three Rivers, but […]
11 Things I Learned in January
Happy Birthday, Robin!! Some of these things are new, and some got relearned. If you have an indoor/outdoor cat, don’t get too attached. Nature is just out your door, and it is brutal and wild. Bye-bye, Samson, the bitey Bengal boy. Still, we think it is better to let a cat be a cat instead […]
Finished Oil Paintings
January was a productive month, all standard subjects that show off the beauty of Tulare County. November and December were good months, and my inventory got depleted. (This is a good thing.) There were actually FIFTEEN MORE, I am not kidding, FIFTEEN! But, they were too wet to scan at the time of this blog post. . . […]
What is that orange stuff?
Did you notice in the last photo of yesterday’s post that 4 little new paintings snuck onto the table? These were the beginnings of some vegetable paintings – 2 pumpkins, a tomato and a pepper (and no, I don’t want to discuss whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable). After I figured out […]