(And I made cookies that morning too.) TODAY OUR POWER WILL BE OUT FOR THE BULK OF THE DAY, SO IF YOU ORDER A CALENDAR, EMAIL ME, OR COMMENT ON THIS POST, YOU WON’T BE GETTING A RESPONSE UNTIL THE EVENING OR TOMORROW. FIRST, 2025 CALENDARS. Available HERE. YARDENING I decided to dig the sweet […]
You Want Me to Draw WHAT??
Good thing that you (and my customers) know that I know how to draw, or this rough sketch would cause everyone to back away slowly, wondering how I could call myself an artist. This is a compilation, a conglomerate, a composite, of unrelated photos, following the ideas and instructions of a customer/friend with an interesting […]
Hard Drawing and Painting Hard
Last week I did some sketching and designing for a very difficult pencil commission. It is breaking a hard and fast rule that I have set for myself, but I can’t figure out how to say no and still help the customer. It’s too scary to show you right now. . . more will be […]
Painting in the Workshop
Most artists paint in their studios. I reserve my studio for drawing and business-ish activities and do my painting in the building next door, a workshop. This is because painting is messier than drawing. I started with the commissioned piece which is now called Tom-ato’s Last Mater. A man named Tom was known for growing […]
Fast Sequoias
What does “fast sequoias” mean? It means that my sequoia paintings sell quickly and sometimes I have to paint more speedy-quick-like-lightning, chop-chop, andalé andalé!! It looked like this: Skies first, then take them outside to begin drying while I go do a few chores. I hung one on the studio door to dry, and the […]
Sold in Spring: 17 Paintings, 3 Pencil Drawings
Sales were slow last year, mostly due to the fact of my three selling locations either being closed or taking a big hit of one sort or another. This spring, things broke loose, opened up, took off. Have a look! (I may have forgotten some, because I fell out of the habit of keeping track.) […]
Drawing a Pennsylvania Dog in Pencil
Pencil Pennsylvanian? Pennsyl Pennsylvanian? Pencil Pencilvanian? Never mind. His name was Elvis, and some friends of his former owner commissioned me to draw him. All those inferior progress photos were taken with an inferior phone camera. Here is the finished drawing, scanned, photoshopped, ready for delivery.
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, […]