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Jana Botkin's Blog

Posting 5 days a week about the realities of earning a living as an artist in Tulare County, California's fly-over country.

Finishing the Sequoia Panel

The first day of painting on the sequoia panel was way too hot, with the sun pounding on

Drawing an Iconic Business in Three Rivers

Reimer’s Candies and Ice Cream is a destination and a landmark in Three Rivers, California. It is now

The Mules of Mineral King

Book This is the title of a very good book about Mineral King, written by a cabin guy

Painting Another Sequoia Panel (+ an Infomercial)

The panel isn’t made out of sequoia wood; the panel is made out of ?? wood, and I

Sawtooth and Me

50 years ago today I got medevacked* off Sawtooth. A group of high school kids were on a

Eureka! Part 2

The carpenter brought ”Aunt Em’s” completed stained glass window to the house to install it. More decisions: facing

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