2025 CALENDARS AVAILABLE HERE. In case these before and after posts are putting you to sleep, let’s skip the chit-chat and go right to the paintings. SIMPLY HOME The show hangs until December 29 at CACHE in Exeter. Their hours are Friday 1:30-4, Saturday 10-4, Sunday noon-4. It includes about 50 paintings, 3 original pencil […]
Before and After, #3
Plein air painting #3 was the only one I did that day because I spent the morning trying to solve my easel problem. A new friend at the painting retreat lent me a pochade box, which needed a tripod to hold it up if I didn’t want to paint sitting with it on my lap. […]
Before and After, #2
This is the second plein air painting I did in Monterey. I set up in the shade by the path to Asilomar Beach (another struggle against that easel), and this time I was determined to do a better painting. This painting gave me hope that I might be able to paint plein air. It also […]
Before and After, #1
This is the first plein air painting I did in Monterey. We set up on Asilomar Beach, and I tried to concentrate on painting when I just wanted to put my feet in the water and enjoy the waves. Instead, I tried to paint while the waves kept moving and my easel kept fighting against […]
The Gift of Art
Tonight at CACHE! Most of Exeter’s businesses will be open for the annual Christmas open house evenings. I will be at CACHE from 5-8 tonight—will you? (125 South B Street) SIMPLY HOME You can see this painting in person tonight. The show hangs until December 29 at CACHE in Exeter. Their hours are Friday 1:30-4, […]
Color Grabs My Attention
2025 CALENDARS AVAILABLE HERE. For the first many years (how many??) of my art career, I only worked in pencil, with occasional forays into colored pencil. The detail, the precision, the accuracy, the requirement of strong contrast and composition—all of these things held my attention. Plus, pencils are easy to transport, use, clean up—simple minimal […]
How I Spent “Black Friday”
2025 CALENDARS AVAILABLE HERE. “Black Friday” kind of disgusts me. (I recognize the irony given the previous paragraph/ad). It overshadows Thanksgiving in the media, and it summarizes and epitomizes the commercialism and greed that taint Christmas. I have participated in Black Friday in the past by joining a group of artists for a boutique here […]
Eleven Things Learned In November
Today’s post is so long that I’m not showing you a piece from Simply Home*, my show in Exeter at CACHE. But first, an advertisement: 2025 CALENDARS AVAILABLE HERE. 2. My How to Draw presentation at CACHE was great fun. 22 people, one hour, lots of talk, one exercise. People really enjoyed themselves while learning […]
Shhhh. . . going quiet
I’m going quiet for a little while. Nothing to worry about, just ready for a break. I’ll be back. No image from Simply Home today, just a few final photos of fall in Three Rivers. (Check CACHE‘s website for hours, and visit the show if you are so inclined, because the paintings ALWAYS look better […]
A Day in Exeter
While at the Mural Gallery for my November shift, I painted. My goal was to be productive in between customers by completing some of the plein air paintings from the week in Monterey. Worked out pretty well. As I was moving everything out to my car, I looked east and remembered many reason I always […]