Today is the first day of Studio Tour Eleven. It is my 7th time to participate. Have you been? It is really fun to drive around Three Rivers and see people’s yards studios. It is greener than this photo shows. In fact, it is downright beautiful in Three Rivers right now! This is what you will […]
Painting a Post Office
One of the most popular subjects for painting, drawing and photography in Three Rivers is the tiny Kaweah Post Office about 3 miles up North Fork Drive. I’ve drawn it more times than I can remember and painted it 10 times. The reason I remember how many paintings is because I have called them Kaweah […]
Painting the Sequoias
Sequoias, AKA “big trees”, are something I really love to paint (and draw). On my doors, on canvas, (or on paper.) I liked the painting on my door so much that I decided to do the same scene on canvas. First step – draw it vaguely with a paintbrush. Second step, get the base coat […]
Building Bridges In Drawing Lessons
For the past 20 years I’ve been teaching people how to draw. One hour per week, 4 people at a time, each working on her own project (and sometimes his), $55/month – drawing lessons! Here is the link if you want to learn more: Drawing Lessons. Everyone learns in a different way and at a […]
Fridays are for Mineral King
Fridays are for Mineral King when I actually have something to tell or show about Mineral King. Trail Guy took a day trip up to MK on March 5. He was able to drive to Silver City, and then took the trackster the rest of the way. He looked at most of the cabins, checking […]
A Few Thoughts About Pinterest
Have you discovered Pinterest? I love pictures, always have. Albums, shoeboxes, and 22,000 on my laptop. . . pictures on my walls, making pictures, taking pictures, and now looking at pictures. Pinterest is pictures. It is also words, and some of those words really gobsmack me upside the head. (Gobsmack is the same sort of […]
Turning Away Work
Really? Turn away work? Who would do that? Me, that’s who. Why? Because I know my limitations. The story: An acquaintance called me to take a look at an old photo of a pilot posing on the wing of his aircraft in the 1940s. It was an 8×10 black and white photo, the man was […]
Another Mural in the Works?
I might have another mural coming. Possibly possible. Right now it is in the conversation stage. I’ve taken photos, looked through the customer’s photos, and figured out a way to show them how a mural might possibly look. All my artwork begins with conversations. But, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll be […]
Sequoia Mural Complete
Doesn’t that sound like a terse newspaper heading? The Sequoia tree mural of a section of the Parker Group on one of my ridgey garage doors is now completed. Maybe. I signed it, but when I live with a piece of art, little corrections ask to be made. So, is it finished? I spent 18 […]
Beautiful Images from the Pacific Northwest
These are not necessarily things indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, but they are beautiful things I encountered while there. Beautiful things, views, places, all here for you to enjoy. Puget Sound (AKA “The Sound”) as seen from Mukilteo, Washington. The Mukilteo light house in what passes for sunshine in February in Washington. An old architectural […]