Does Art Have A Purpose?

This is a reprint of an article that I wrote for LinkedIn. Mineral King Trail, 11 x 14″, oil on wrapped canvas, $175 In the art world, one can always find a discussion about the purpose of art. Is it to decorate? To enhance? To inspire? Or, is its purpose to disrupt, to cause one […]

New Year, New Challenge

I met a guy who likes my art. He is in an art related business, studied architecture and has similar ideas to mine about what makes good art. He told me that he has decided I am an “art-itect”. I understood the term immediately. A few weeks ago he asked me to bid on a […]

New Year, New Website!

Farewell Gap Alpen Glow, 11 x 14″, oil on wrapped canvas, $175 Happy New Year! It’s a cliche, a greeting, a wish, a cultural norm. We are generally an optimistic society and I am an optimist too, so it is with high hopes for 2015 that I express this heartfelt wish to my blog readers who […]

Book Signing December 23

The Cabins of Wilsonia Book Signing Exeter Courthouse Gallery 125 South B Street, Exeter, California 12:30 – 5:30 Yes, I know 5 hours is a long time. That is the normal time for drawing lessons, and there are none in December so I decided to use the space and time for The Cabins of Wilsonia. Besides, […]

Odd Job Based on Mineral King

After many years of being an artist in Tulare County, and specializing in Mineral King, people often think of me when they need an artist. I get asked to do unusual things, which I call “odd jobs”. This one was a first for me – drawing in a manner that could be sandblasted onto granite […]

The Cabins of Wilsonia Book Signing Today

Five pallets of 1529 books arrived at my favorite store in Three Rivers, the Mercantile. These people truly understand customer service. Trail Guy backed the Bot-Mobile and trailer containing about 3 pallets of books up the driveway. (We used the other pick-up for the 2 other pallets – don’t worry, we didn’t leave them at […]

Stocking Stuffer Recap

“Recap”? What does that really mean? Just another piece of slang that we all accept, like “wrap up”. Sometimes I think I am losing my ability to speak real words, hence “do-over” “yucky” and “funner” in a recent post. But, I digress. The Stocking Stuffer Boutique went well. Six of us shared a vacant business […]

THE CABINS OF WILSONIA BOOK SIGNING

The books, The Cabins of Wilsonia, are supposed to arrive today. This may mean they arrive at some truck depot in Fresno where they sit over the weekend or it may mean a big rig comes to the hardware store in Three Rivers. (Bless Mike McCoy and the Three Rivers Mercantile for making their turn-around space […]

While I Wait

This post was written on December 8. As the arrival of the book The Cabins of Wilsonia gets closer, my anxiety mounts. This is due to several factors: the printer hasn’t been very forthcoming with information, and the closer to Christmas it gets, the more difficult I know it will be to get it signed, sealed […]