“Painting” can be a noun or a verb. In this case, it is both. After 3 wifi-less days, there were many little tasks** to attend to, and when I finally got into the workshop to paint, it was a real treat. Made a couple more adjustments on the barn, then moved it into the sunshine […]
Finished and Scanned
The new scanner is a real bugger to figure out. Lots of trial and error, and no instruction manual. It’s pretty tricky to use the laptop for scanning while searching out instructions at the same time, particularly when the internet is down, so I just keep pushing buttons, trying various things, and when something actually […]
Fixing Someone Else’s Work
Doesn’t that sound arrogant? While helping my friend set up her grandpa’s house as a vacation rental, we encountered a barn painting that made us both groan. It had no signature, so I offered to take it home and give it a makeover. I was practically itching to tackle this, to put it out of […]
Helping a Friend in Three Rivers
There is a house above us on the hill that has been empty for a little over a year. The residents got old and went the way of all flesh, but the family can’t stand the idea of letting the house go. So, it is becoming a vacation rental, and granddaughter of the residents is […]
Painting Differently
Sometimes when I oil paint, I try to finish in one layer. It seldom works, and requires another layer of better detailing. Other times, I plan on finishing in two layers. Still others, I expect to keep repainting the scene, over and over and over. In ArtSpeak, this is called “glazing”, and it is the […]
Sort of Finished
Whoda thunk we’d get rain in Three Rivers in August? It came on a day I had planned to paint, but I didn’t let the low light stop me. However, I held back on thinking any of these paintings were finished. When the sun comes out, I’ll have another think about the state of their […]
Trying to Explain the Inexplicable
Our internet is working again. The three-day crash coincided with my blog having some mysterious troubles. It will take awhile for me to untangle this and make it work for you. Many of you subscribe to my blog. (THANK YOU!) Many of my subscribers don’t understand that you can go to the internet, to cabinart.net, […]
Try to Remember. . .
“. . . the time of September. . .” OR “See you, in September. . .” Never mind. September is a little weird this year, because Labor Day is on the latest possible date, September 7. Have a look at the September pencil drawing in my 2026 calendar. This is a meadow near Crescent Meadow […]
Hitchhiking at the Neighbors’ Place
Spectrum went out. This means no internet, no landline, no teevee, and only a single bar of cellphone for texting. There was a Spectrum outage, but our trouble started a day before that and is probably our modem. Things wear out quickly, it seems. It might be repaired on Tuesday morning. A technician is supposed […]
Twelve Things (Plus 5 Subcategories) Learned in August
2. In late July on two consecutive days right around 5:45, we heard a tree fall on the slope above our cabin. The Farmer asked if I knew why they fell, and of course I said, “because they were dead”. Nope. It was hot out, the trees sucked up a ton of water from the […]