When we last looked at this challenging pencil commission of a Texas scene, it looked like this. When I don’t know where to begin, I just pick something that is somewhat concrete, something with a photo to follow, rather than work on the things I have to make up. So, distant trees, grass, and tractor. […]
A Few Mineral King Sights
Labor Day weekend was a great time to just hang out with neighbors. We had dinners together, hiked together, did projects together, and just enjoyed these multi-generational friendships. Since I try to protect privacy on the World Wide Web, I’ll only show you photos that don’t include people. Hmmm, a taco truck in the parking […]
Another Mineral King Hike (Mosquito Lake)
My adventurous and fearless friend K consented to hike with me and Hiking Buddy, even though we are no where near her level of competence on the trails. It had been years since I’d seen Mosquito Lake, and although I doubted my ability to tolerate foot discomfort that distance, we chose to go in that […]
Back at the Drawing Table
I told you that I have a very challenging drawing commission. Well yippee skippee, I finally had a pair of minutes to concentrate on the project. It is almost more of a design problem than an is-this-even-possible problem, like those tiny faces back in the winter. (Visible as Item #10 on Ten New Things Learned […]
Ten Things Learned in August (Plus What I Did on my “Vacation”)
Because we don’t have drawing lessons in July or August, sometimes my students say, “Have a nice vacation!” (One sings to me, “See you, in September. . .”) “Vacation”? Fall down laughing. This is what I did workwise in July and August: 2. The library’s card catalog stopped working online after the last “maintenance” session. […]
After the Storm (in Mineral King)
By the time you read this post, this will all seem like distant past. These photos are from the evening of K and my exciting Mineral King hike. I was pretty beat, but stumbled down to the bridge to see the muddy raging stream and to look up at Farewell Gap, with its sprinklings of […]
Labor Day
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DV!!
An Exciting Mineral King Hike
WARNING: very long post Just a few days ago I told you about Trail Guy hiking to the Franklin/Farewell junction and lamented my lack of hiking this summer. Last Sunday a friend and I decided to go to the Franklin/Farewell junction, because I really wanted to see it at least one more time in my […]
Is it Legal to Sell Sequoia Trees?
It is if they are painted. I don’t mean to go out with some spray paint and deface a redwood: I mean make an oil painting of a Sequoia gigantea, AKA redwood AKA big tree. These 6×18” oil paintings sell very steadily. Here is Sequoia Gigantea XXVI from beginning to completion. At the time of […]
Trail Guy Hiked up the Farewell Canyon
I was in Gilroy. Trail Guy hiked anyway. I’m glad that my feet aren’t sidelining him. It has been a couple of years since I made it to the Franklin/Farewell junction, a place we refer to as the Wildflower Cafe, since it is a nice destination for lunch, particularly in early July when the wildflowers […]