1. There is a strange thing about my daily paintings of fruit. Have you noticed that all of the fruits begin with the letter “P”? This is truly peculiar. Peculiar P Paintings: pomegranate, persimmon, pumpkin, pear, pepper, plum, peach. It is true that I haven’t shown you all of these in this particular series, but […]
Daily Painting
Plum II, oil on wrapped canvas, 6×6″, $40 Peach, oil on wrapped canvas, 6×6″, $40
Daily Painting, Continued
If you tuned in to this blog for the Mineral King Bridge update, I’m sorry to disappoint you today. Instead of watching my husband work on the bridge project, we spent the weekend at the coast in honor of 25 years of marriage. This gives me a chance to show you a few more paintings, […]
Daily Painting Catch-up
Here is proof that I actually do work in addition to watch the marshmallow-heads at the bridge in Mineral King. Yes, my business and website and car license plate and studio and business cards all say Cabinart, but sometimes Cabinart brings you kitchen-art. (I said “kitchen”, not “kitsch”). This California artist has to paint items […]
Mineral King Bridge, Part 9
Yesterday I left you all with the cliff-hanger of how to extract the heavy Wacker out of the abutment area, which is well below the height of the road. I hope it wasn’t too suspenseful for you. If it robbed you of a night’s sleep, please forgive me. Here is your answer: The claw thingie […]
Mineral King Bridge, Part 8
Our marshmallow-headed, shovel-leaning road guys are hard at work, spreading the gravel as they build up the abutment on the closer side of the bridge. But wait, there’s more! After they spread the gravel, it has to be tamped. “Tamped?” I can hear you asking. Yeppers. There is a machine for that. It is yellow, […]
Mineral King Bridge, Part 7
Yesterday I left you exhausted and overwhelmed from too much information. Today I will simply show you the neat-o little peek-a-boo hole to see the river through the crumbling abutment. And, as a special treat, I will answer your burning question of how the loader got to the opposite side of the bridge – trenchplates!! […]
Mineral King Bridge, Part 6
I walked to the bridge with my camera to document the progress and was completely baffled by something. How did the loader get on the opposite side of the bridge from last week?? There is a mess where the abutment belongs – it isn’t drivable! I scoured the creek for tracks – How did it […]
Daily Painting
Oh yeah, I forgot I was supposed to be painting and showing them to you. Got kind of caught up in the excitement of the bridge project and the wildlife and wild weather. I AM painting, just not showing and telling. The lemon and the pomegranate were grown in Tulare County, California. (I am a […]
My Wild Life
Living in a small rural community in a small rural county gets a little exciting at times. It isn’t as though I battle wildfires (please, God, spare us that), and there have been no rattlesnakes this season. But, sometimes it rains very very hard. This was about 2 weeks ago: My wipers were on the […]