Let Us Spray

This is what drawing student Gerald said to me when he finished his drawing. “Spray?”, you are asking, even as you read this. (Yes, I can hear you.) Spray fixative is one method of preventing the finished drawing from smearing. Framing is another; workable fixative is a third. I’ve been told it adds “tooth” (that […]

Blog tutorial

Lemons VII, oil on wrapped canvas, 8×10 If you are on my email list, about every week or 2 you receive an email from me. It mostly says hello and this is what is in my blog and here is the link. People ask me about these emails when they haven’t heard for awhile. Some […]

Don’t You Get Bored Working Alone At Home?

Grapes V, 6×6, oil on wrapped canvas, sold Nope. Look at the things I could/can/should/am/will do: draw paint blog update website photograph work sort through photos and refile those used/stacked/piled/contemplated plan for upcoming shows package notecards and reproduction prints sweep the dead scorpions and spider webs from the studio write another bio for the upcoming […]

Teaching without a degree

Honeymoon Cabin, pencil, 11×14, unframed, $300 A few years ago I took 1/2 a semester of oil painting at a local junior college. I learned more about painting from only the primary colors, and I learned about layering (called “glazing” in Artspeak). I learned that I need more light to see than a 19 year […]

Drawing Lessons

I teach people how to draw. The lessons are probably considered “semi-private” because each student receives one-on-one instruction, but in a small class. Just the facts: 4 people at one time, one hour each week, each working on her own piece at her own pace. Youngest – 6th grade. Oldest – too polite to ask! […]

Superlatives!

Tulare County is a place of superlatives. Sadly, we rank highest in the nation in being fat, uneducated, diabetic, poor; we make more teenage moms, have terrible unemployment and the dirtiest air. Ready to run away screaming yet? I don’t know all the specific statistics, only that we are either the “best” at those terrible […]

Rhyme Time

Fat Cat Bum Thumb Hot Spot Fair Pair Sweet Treat Beat Feet Neat Feat fish wish bridge smidge knit wit

List of unrelated thoughts with one semi-related piece of art

K1 Green, 6×6″, oil on wrapped canvas, $50 I see only one movie in a theater a year. It has to do with the time, the distance, and my pickiness high level of discernment. This year’s movie was The Help. I would gladly see it again. It is the best movie I’ve seen in longer […]

Daily Painting 13

Hidden Gardens 2, 8×8″, $75 Historic adobe house, lavender farm, fabulous garden, and a view of the fake Comb Rocks. The real Comb Rocks is out the the frame to the left. (It’s a Three Rivers thing, with apologies to those of you who are wondering what I’m going on about.) The number of available […]