Do You Color?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PHEEBS! The only times I color is when I am doing a little boutique-festival-fair-show-sale – whatever those events are called. Coloring is more fitting than knitting and certainly more approachable than reading a book in between customers. (If I am attending a festival and a vendor is reading a book, I just keep […]
Too Random, Need a List
Too much variety means all of this could take up multiple posts, so a list will be the best approach today. There are now many new paintings listed on my website – For Sale–Oil Paintings–Landscape. If you sort by newness, you can see them. I finally finished coloring the grapes in my coloring book Heart of […]
Coloring Simply
When I paint, I use only the primary colors, a manner called the “double primary palette”. This is because it has 2 yellows, 2 blues, and 2 reds. (White doesn’t count and the purple at the end is a mix I always make when I begin painting.) This is a colored pencil version of that simple […]
Merchandise and Marketing Sense
Christmas is coming, and if I had any marketing sense, I would have been telling you about merchandise that is available all through the month. I do have sense, and I sense that it would be irritating for me to keep pounding the sales drum. However, if you need a reminder or an easy idea […]
Walnuts in My Art
Do you like walnuts? When I was a kid, I thought gleaning was punishment, in spite of being paid a king’s ransom of 25¢ a bucket. There were always stinging nettles on the ground, and it was boring. Then, I would say to my poor mama, “WHY do you have to put walnuts in EVERYTHING??” […]
Testing a Coloring Book
Designing coloring books involves drawing, my favorite thing. Coloring the pages is for other people to do. But, I got curious. So, I gave it a try in the ag coloring book, Heart of Agriculture: Celebrating Tulare County Farm Bureau’s First 100 years. This is as far as I got on the title page. I filled […]
Heart of Agriculture
That is an apt title for today – a nod to both Valentine’s Day and the World Ag Expo’s opening day in the title of my latest coloring book. This coloring book was published in partnership with the Tulare County Farm Bureau, a delightful group of people to work with (in spite of their rejection of […]
Heart of Agriculture
THIS IS THE COVER OF THE NEXT COLORING BOOK! AND THIS IS ONE OF THE INTERIOR PAGES! Yes, there is a hidden heart in every picture, even this one. I did my best to not have to draw cotton, but the customers (plural – there was a committee) requested it in spite of my explaining […]
New Coloring Book in Progress
A few weeks back I told you that I am working on a new coloring book for grownups. (I use the childish sounding word “grownups” instead of “adult” because of the negative connotations on the internet with the “a” word. We wouldn’t want anyone to jump to conclusions about the appropriateness of my coloring books, would we?) […]