You May Slow Your Horse Down Now

For awhile, I’ve been advising you to view my Sequoia mural from the back of a fast horse, preferably at a distance. I’m beginning to think that it might be okay to slow your horse down now, but distance is still an advantage for best viewing. Getting better with each session. This is the result […]

More Sequoia Mural on a Ridgey Garage Door

This is the current level of the mural. More accurately, this is the current version that I have to share with you. Perhaps you live in my neighborhood and have driven by between the writing and the posting of this post. Then you, my neighbor, will know that the progress is even more progressive. That […]

Mineral King in February?

Nope, I’m not there. (Where did the word “nope” come from??)  But, it is Friday, so have a look at some Mineral King art from my pencil archives: Fret not. Summer will return. Mineral King is one of the treasures of Tulare County, a place I love. We break for this commercial message: This pencil […]

And the Paint(ing) Goes On

The Sequoia mural on a ridgey garage door continues. Here is what my view looks like while I am painting: The horizontal blue line is so I can tell where I am. It is the center from top to bottom. I don’t know exactly what I am doing when I am this close to the […]

The Slow Sequoia Mural

Slowly inching along, climbing up and down the ladder, walking to the end of the driveway and back, studying, scrutinizing, evaluating, analyzing. I have to live with this mural, not just drive past it occasionally, so it needs to be really well done. Besides, it will be advertising for murals during the Studio Tour. One […]

Paint Slowly

Two of my neighbors have requested that I paint slowly.  They want to enjoy the process of seeing a mural develop. With this mural of Sequoia trees on a ridgey door, I don’t have a choice. In my head the thing should be going quickly, but reality is much different. I climb down the ladder […]

Sequoia Mural on a Ridgey Garage Door

First, I mixed my main paint colors, using the primaries. That weirdo greenish yellow (or yellowish green) is not a primary, but is an example of a color that is easily mixed using red, blue, yellow and white. Isn’t that UH-MAY-ZING?? Still thrills me. I actually use 2 different reds and 2 different blues. First, […]

No Longer At Loose Ends

Now that the drawings for The Cabins of Wilsonia are finished and the book is in its first review session, I’ve been sort of wandering aimlessly. Organize a little, paint a little, work on the blog a little, procrastinate a little, wonder what to do. Suddenly I have a big list: Finish painting the outbuildings Begin […]