Maybe. Maybe not. However, I am heading to Texas tomorrow*, and when I return, I think the green in Three Rivers will be finished, or close to it. My dear friend the Texan and I planned this visit to coincide with the blooming of the Texas bluebonnets (a variety of lupine). I think someone miscalculated, […]
So Proud of my Drawing Students
For 30 years, I have been helping people learn to draw. The classes are small: 4-8 people together for an hour per week, each one working on his own work at his own pace. It has become the highlight of my art business, a chance to connect with fabulous people, sharing tips and encouragement with […]
Painting With a Few Interruptions
Another beautiful spring day, accompanied by the desire to just be outside and pull weeds. Nope. It’s a workday, chica. But wait! There’s an eclipse! I joined Trail Guy for a brief look at the weirdness of shadows and light, with the help of a colander and a piece of white paper. Back to work. […]
Finished Pencil Drawing of a Cabin
I sure do know how to stretch a story out. . . have you noticed how many people use the cliché “long story short”, and then proceed to make a short story even longer? I am sort of doing that here, except I break it into chapters for you, because of another cliché that applies […]
Drawing a Cabin in Pencil, 2
The Minnesota customer replied quickly and thoroughly to my inquiry about the two different versions of the cabin. I couldn’t tell if there were actually two gable ends, slightly different, or if some changes had been made. She said the cabin has been a work in progress and changes get made regularly. The three rows […]
Drawing a Cabin in Pencil
Which of the three sketches of a Minnesota cabin did the two sisters choose? They chose A! (The exclamation mark is because that was the one I was hoping for.) I cropped all the extraneous cold stuff. The sisters asked if I could show a bit more porch, and the best I could say was, […]
Cabinart = Art of a Cabin
Drawing cabins in pencil is the way I started my art business. Now I spend 90% of my artmaking time as an oil painter, so when I get asked to draw a cabin, I am really happy about it! Someone from Minnesota found me on the internet and asked if I could draw her parents’ […]
Another Big Tree
Tall narrow canvases with oil paintings of Sequoia trees sell steadily, so I paint them steadily. Sentinel Tree, 6×18″, $165 This one is modeled after the Sentinel Tree, in front of the Giant Forest Market, now a museum. I say “modeled after”, because I no longer feel the need to duplicate every branch as it […]
Speedy Quick Like Lightning
After spending most of the winter working on difficult subjects that took much thought, revision, and enormous amounts of time, painting familiar small Mineral King oil paintings to sell in the upcoming summer months feels speedy quick like lightning. I think Hiking Buddy took the reference photo with her superior iPhone, generously sent it to […]
Some flowers, a painting, and a lost and found sketch
A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I decided to ride bikes in Lemon Cove, because there are flat roads down there. We parked at the Lemon Cove Woman’s Club (I think that is the odd way the name is spelled), and we were just slayed by the orange blossom scent and the incredible […]