Here’s a catch-all, catch-up post for you on random topics. My blog post ideas are triggered by pictures, and these were just languishing in the file without purpose. This painting was very difficult. I worked on it from real life, and from several different photos taken at different times of year. This is the final iteration […]
Exciting Times While Painting in Three Rivers
Sometimes, while painting in Three Rivers, in Tulare County in Central California (not LA, not San Francisco – NOTHING like the stereotypical California), I am just minding my own business, painting along, staying calm and focused, and then stuff happens. Smoke? I smell smoke. Hmmm, there are ashes. . . that’s worrisome. I don’t hear […]
Drawing a Cabin
My business is called “Cabinart” because when I began, I lived in a cabin and I drew people’s cabins. I still live in a cabin part time and I still draw cabins. When someone pays me to draw a specific cabin, that is a commission. A friend asked me to draw a cabin that he […]
Kaweah Postal Disaster!
UPDATE: The auction will go live at 12:02 on September 29 – I think this means just after noon. Thank you for your patience with my inexperience and ignorance! As a Central California artist representing the good things of Tulare County, I have painted and drawn the little Kaweah Post Office many times. It is […]
Fruit Looping
Last week we looked at 3 completed fruit paintings that included a squished orange. I began 3 more fruit oil paintings (I AM a Central California artist, after all!) because I had 3 more of those extra thick canvases. Then, I looped back to the squished orange and unsquished it. Can you see the difference? […]
Short Hike in Mineral King
This wasn’t a big hiking year for me in Mineral King. I went to White Chief two times, and Franklin Creek once, and up toward Farewell Gap once. I noticed that someone moved White Chief farther away and higher up the second time I went. Who would do such a thing?? This is a bizarre […]
Weird Little Contest Entries
Each of these drawings are 2-1/4″ x 3-1/4″, drawn directly on the entry form called “Blank Canvas” for the magazine “Professional Artist”. The 2 colored pictures are colored pencil. It hurts my wrist to use colored pencil over an extended period of time, but these went quickly. And I […]
Weirdly Easy Little Contest
Competitions and contests are usually a waste of time for a professional artist. This is just my opinion – there are bound to be those who disagree. One can win awards and not sell a thing. Or, one can sell but not win. I’ve been in both places, and frankly, I’d rather sell than win. […]
Cabin Communities Matter
“Cabin Communities Matter” is the name of my presentation about, umm, cabin communities (duh) using my drawings and what I learned while making my book, The Cabins of Wilsonia. It was an hour drive to Tulare, where I gave the talk. I chose to drive through the country, which means orange groves, fields of cotton, vineyards […]
New Paintings, Squished Orange
My friend/customer LOVED these paintings, including the extra thick canvases. Yea! However, I studied the orange painting and realized it isn’t symmetrically round like an orange – it is squished on the left side. Back to the easels. . .