Yesterday I left you at the cliffhanger of Better Living Through Coffee in the Pacific Northwest. Carol and I visited Port Townsend. It is a beautiful little town on the water with very stately architecture and art galleries and shops full of unnecessary items to enhance life and coffee and restaurants. As the daughter […]
2008 Wasn’t All Bad
You know how everyone refers to 2008 as the year that the economy went south? (How insulting to our Southern friends that “going south” is a euphemism for going bad – it means going downward, oh Gentle Southern Reader.) In Three Rivers, California, 2008 was the Year The Poppies Were Incredibly Abundant and Shockingly Beautiful. […]
Better Living in the Pacific Northwest
AFTER we finished working on the design of The Cabins of Wilsonia, Carol and I went on an adventure. Riding a ferry is always an adventure to me, but we spiced it up a bit to see if we could rely solely on public transportation. First we drove to the Mukilteo ferry. I love that ferry. […]
A California Artist Visits the Pacific Northwest
I went to the Seattle area so my friend Carol could help me finalize the design on the upcoming book, The Cabins of Wilsonia. She taught me how to use Adobe Indesign almost 2 years ago and has an excellent eye for design. I get caught up in “oh, I love that cabin” and “those people […]
On The Wall (not Off The Wall)
But wait, there is more besides poppies on my easel. Not really on the easel, but there are other paintings drying on the wall behind my easel. A painter’s gotta paint, especially when there is a Studio Tour on its way in Three Rivers. March 21, 22, 23, in case you were wondering. That lemon and […]
Poppies on the Easel
It is time to get some paintings finished for the upcoming Three Rivers Studio Tour. This is what is taking place in the painting workshop these days. It’s a start to a picture that might work in my 2015 calendar, in addition to being available for the studio tour. Besides, it is just fun to paint […]
Drawing Because I Love To Draw
After spending an entire year completely focused on completing one drawing after another after another after another until 268 drawings were completed. . . What was I saying? All those after anothers got me lost. I love to draw. It has been a long time since I drew simply because there was a picture I […]
Painting Mineral King
and Crescent Meadow. The top painting shows the Mineral King valley from up on the Monarch Lake Trail as it appeared last September. If I am hiking to Monarch Lake, it is the Monarch Lake Trail. If I am hiking to Crystal Lake, it is the Crystal Lake Trail. If I am walking to Timber […]
Tiny Change
When I am painting a mural, every time I look at it I see things to fix, change or improve. When I live by the mural, this can add up to a lot of looking, fixing, changing and improving. The change I made was that the sunshine behind the big trees was so light that […]
Amazing Work from my Drawing Students
This year marks the completion of 20 years of teaching people how to draw. Or, perhaps it marks the beginning of year #21. Numbers aren’t my strongest subject. When I started, I didn’t know how to teach. I just bumbled, fumbled and mumbled. If someone wanted to draw, say, a lion, I’d procrastinate on the […]