The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day has always felt like a freebie to me. I don’t work much, but spend time thinking about the previous year (did I actually do anything noteworthy?) and about the upcoming year (do I look as if I have a plan?). Last week I thought about blogging, marketing, […]
Final Final Cabin Thoughts, Maybe
There are three distinct parts to cabin-ness: The building itself – small, rustic, basic, simple, often without electronic amenities. (But wait! What about the cabin pictured above?) The setting – rural, semi-secluded, in the mountains, taking an effort to get to (But wait! Have you ever been up Highway 180 to Wilsonia? And do these […]
Boutique Ahead, Paint Fast
The Lemon Cove Womans Club’s Harvest Boutique will be on Saturday. This coming Saturday, October 20, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Gotta get some things ready to sell! These fruit and blossom paintings are on 5×7″ boards, to be displayed on mini easels. This is how they looked after the first pass over the […]
Hot Wheels
Does it seem as if I am obsessed with Hot Wheels? My older sister’s first car was a ’68 Mustang, which was thrilling after only having giant station wagons and farm pickups at our address. Then I discovered Honda Accords, and have owned nothing but since about 1981. (This topic doesn’t seem to have anything […]
Remember
Remember with thankfulness.
More Solds
“Solds”? Is this really a noun? It is my world. Clearly the 6×18″ size is hot right now. Good thing I just ordered more canvases that size. I have several new ideas to paint in that format, so stay tuned.
Thankful
Sawtooth Peak Oil Painting Continued
The layers continue to build on Sawtooth Peak, an oil painting. As it was when you last saw it: Another layer added to the sky:Another layer added to Sawtooth: Another layer added to the lower ridges: And more added to the lower ridges:Yo, Professor Layer, may I be finished with the sky and the peak […]
You Know You are Middle-aged When. . .
An older and wiser friend reminds me from time to time that life is like a roll of toilet paper–the closer to the end, the faster it goes. I’ve been thinking lately that you know you are middle-aged when. . . . . . you prefer hiking uphill to downhill because your knees kill you […]
Drawing Mineral King
It is Friday, and the only new thing I have to show you of Mineral King is a drawing. My weekends have been taken with memorial services (one last Saturday and another one tomorrow), drawing workshops, art receptions, business presentations. I’m not complaining, just ‘splaining. The drawing is new. The scene is old, or perhaps “classic” […]