Finally, I can tell you about my upcoming big project! It is Exeter’s next mural and will be located directly across from my other mural. This one is about 1/3 of the length of the other. The subject is Franklin Lake and the Mount Whitney Power Company, which was the precursor to Southern California Edison […]
Learning to draw, Chapter Twenty
Could you draw like this when you were in 7th grade? I couldn’t! Maleah can, and she did! The center of the flower was a bit worrisome, so we handled it the way I do the more difficult parts. When working on a difficult texture, practice different techniques on another piece of paper until it […]
Redbud Festival Review
The Arts Alliance of Three Rivers did an outstanding job of organizing, publicizing and managing the Redbud this year! The music was just right, the booth size was generous, the signs leading the public in were visible and consistent in color and design, the vendors had high quality products, the food choices were plentiful, the parking […]
Redbud Festival
It is today, Saturday, May 8 and tomorrow, Sunday, May 9. Saturday’s hours are 10-5, Sunday’s hours are 10-4. Lion’s Roping Arena – up 198 to Three Rivers, cross the North Fork Bridge, go about 2 miles and turn right. Turn at the first left and follow to the arena. Park in the lower parking […]
All at one time!
Yep, a paintbrush in each hand, in my teeth and one per foot. . . of course I am joking! But all of these paintings are wet and in progress and won’t be ready in time for Redbud Festival. Orders can be taken for commissions. . . 😎 The bridge is slowly advancing – the changes […]
Redbud Festival
Redbud Festival is an annual event in Three Rivers that I seem to participate in on a biennial basis. (Thanks Cousin Maggie for teaching me the right word!) (sometimes I am having a Bad Ankle Year, sometimes I am painting a mural, one never knows!) This is a year I will be in, and it is […]
Long Walk, finale!
This marker let us know we had 1 mile to go (mile 20 for us 21-milers). Our feet were ready to stop walking in spite of all the fun. 2/10ths of a mile remaining as we crossed the Carmel Creek Bridge! We were really pouring it on in terms of speed, knowing we […]
Long Walk, part 3
Remember, today is First Saturday in Three Rivers! There were peculiar sights along Highway One throughout our 21 Mile Power Walk. Check out these Shetland ponies! And this guy with his old car, synthesizer/keyboard thing, and 2 flags, one that I did not recognize: The views continued to be almost breathtaking (perhaps if we […]
A Random List – Learned in January
While away over the weekend, I learned many new things. Here they are as they pop into my head: Google Maps can be used to see photos of the road and Carol showed me how! Single plied yarn knits up visibly different from multiple plied yarn (I always thought I was doing something wrong but […]
Thinking like an artist
You know how you just cruise along, living your life, not giving any thought to how you measure up to anyone else? (Maybe you think about other people’s opinions, but I don’t very often.) So you’re just cruising along, doing what you do, doing what comes naturally, and BOOM! Someone tells you that you are […]