Eight WHAT on the easels? So glad you asked! Eight oil paintings of Mineral King are on my easels. Sometimes they are on a table, sometimes they are in my hands while I paint. After putting a base coat on the canvases to bury the white, I painted skies on all eight. Three are the […]
A One-Person Oil Painting Factory
After the Redbud Festival, it took awhile to rearrange everything in the studio and the painting workshop. I returned many of the paintings to Kaweah Arts, but not all that I had “borrowed”. While sitting in my booth at the Redbud Festival, I had a lot of time to assess my paintings. I made lists […]
Just a Regular Work Day
Well, not exactly regular, because it involved gathering paintings from Kaweah Arts and pricing them for the Redbud Festival. But that is all part of the business of art in the life of your Central California Artist. I started 3 new sequoia paintings so that Kaweah Arts has back stock. Then it was time to […]
Better than Before, New and Improved
“Old and Improved” is a bit more accurate than “New and Improved”. If something is new, how can it be an improvement?? Here are three more paintings that I have made better than before. In the time since I first painted these, I have gotten better at painting. (“Better” means “better in my opinion”.) This […]
Before and After, New and Improved
As I study some of my paintings and live with them, I see ways to make them better. So, I touch them up to improve them. Just another peek into the work of a Tulare County artist, bumbling along here in Central California. Sometimes you just can’t tell on a computer screen because they photographed […]
Central California Artist in Texas, Chapter 6
N and I planned my visit to Texas around when she thought the bluebonnets would be in bloom. When she said the end of April, I thought, “Wow, that wildflower season is later than in Central California”. I was glad that it was later, because it meant I would be in Three Rivers through most […]
Redbud Festival Today
Hey, friends. Today was Day One of the two-day Redbud Festival in Three Rivers. This year it has returned to the Lions Roping Arena, a great big outdoor space. There is good signage leading to it, but in case you are wondering, cross the Kaweah on North Fork Drive (just before Sierra Subs), go about […]
Back to Business – The Redbud Festival!
I’ve been telling you about Texas so eagerly that I almost forgot to tell you about the Redbud Festival. It is traditionally on Mother’s Day Weekend. This year it will return to the Lions Roping Arena in Three Rivers. I haven’t participated in a few years, but this time your Central California artist will be […]
Central California Artist in Texas, Chapter 5
Oh my stars! Texas is the Lone Star State, and boy howdy are they proud of that star and that nickname, which actually only became official a few years ago. Texas was a sovereign nation for about 10 years, and they are the only state with the audacity to fly their flag at a height […]
Central California Artist in Texas, Chapter 4
On the way back from Waco, N took different back roads. This time we chose to go through Crawford, where Bush 43 has his ranch. Had his ranch? I don’t know for sure. We didn’t see any sign of the ranch, of course, but I was very surprised by the town. Somewhere we read about […]