Learned in May? Who had time to learn anything when I was painting like a machine and paintings were selling at warp speed. Okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. It only felt like warp speed (nope, no idea what that actually means) compared to a s l o w s l o w s […]
Finishing Two More Oil Paintings
This painting has been on hold for many months. Finally, I felt able to finish it. After working on Sawtooth #66 with the water, and Sawtooth #65 with all the made up things, this suddenly felt quite manageable. Success breeds confidence. Let’s paint a sunset at the beach. First, I mixed a bunch of sunset […]
Gittin’ ‘er dun at the Easel
This painting had the tightest deadline of all the paintings in progress. After a day of doing many non-painting projects, I got a day to paint uninterrupted (except for Jackson). The edges are painted. It needed to dry, be signed, get photographed, varnished and get rewired from its previous iteration as a horizontal painting. This […]
Too Busy to Paint
In the mornings I meet my friend and her cat so we can power up a steep road in the neighborhood. Some mornings there are turkeys yelling in the middle of the road. None of this keeps me too busy to paint. I just wanted you to see these pictures. There is a large project […]
Ready for Summer, Professionally Speaking
The store, no, the employees at the Silver City Resort do their best to sell my paintings every summer. Sometimes they are closed due to pandemics, fires, floods, ultra heavy winters, or ruined roads. But we nevah nevah nevah give up. There are about five Mineral King paintings at the Mural Gallery and Gift Shop […]
Day #3 of Painting Sawtooth*
Nope, don’t wanna paint this. After a moment’s thought, I remembered a made-up somewhat embellished view that sold twice last summer as a 6×12”, the same proportions as this 12×24” canvas. I dug out the relevant photos, and flipped the canvas. Then what happened? So glad you asked! First, upside down so the proportions would […]
Another Day of Painting Sawtooths*
I thought this would be easy to finish, forgetting that it is much faster to cover large areas with a wide brush than little bittty dots of color with a tiny brush. Feeling bold, I messed up the sky with aspen leaves. See the photo in my hand? Many aspens. This photo carries more weight […]
A Day of Painting Sawtooths*
Two Sawtooth paintings on my easels, yellow-lidded palette thawing from its overnight storage in the freezer. Next a decision to begin with the skies, so the tall painting needed to be flipped. And since sky was the first color, I added in the tiny (6×6”) classic Mineral King painting to the day’s tasks. I flipped […]
And Another Productive Day!
This looked like a full day of painting ahead. If I could knock these out, it would be a productive day. Let’s go! I knocked out the wildflowers on the 8×10” Sawtooth painting first. Actually, this didn’t look too hard. It needed some fencing and cows and of course, wildflowers, which are just colored dots […]
Such a Productive Day
And about time after so many days of messing around in my yard, other people’s yards, and driving around Three Rivers. I painted all day. It was kind of hot and there were mosquitos. I painted anyway. This is how it is when an artist messes around and then sells seven paintings in two weeks […]