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 […]
A Cover-up
Shall we call this Paint-gate? I bet people under 50 years of age don’t understand why every political scandal and cover-up has “gate” attached to the end. This cover-up isn’t scandalous. A friend gave me a 24×30” canvas with an unfinished painting that her daughter did in college. Out of respect for my friend, I […]
Mineral King Road
For many years, there has been talk of repairing the Mineral King road. Talk talk talk, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah. Surveys, public meetings, emails. Fires, floods, emergency repairs, road closures. Finally, the work has begun. The road won’t be open to the public until the Wednesday before Memorial Day weekend, and there is […]
Doing Business with a Friend*
This post is lots of jibber-jabber before the photos, but without the gab, you might wonder why these photos are here. A longtime (not going to say “old”) friend expressed an interest in a couple of my paintings. I brought them to her so she could see how they looked on a recently refurbished wall […]
Forget Watercolors; Where are my Oil Paints?
The last painting of a lemon sold the day I took it to the gallery*, so I painted another one. This is Lemons on the Tree IV, 6×6”, $75. It needs a few blossoms. Now it is time to start painting Mineral King subjects to sell at Silver City this summer. This is Sawtooth #64, […]
A Drive on the Mineral King Road
There was an overcast day in Three Rivers this week. Maybe more than one, but we are only concerned with one of them for purposes of this post. We drove up the Mineral King road, as far as the Conifer gate. (That’s the upper gate, which is below Atwell. Now the gate locks are consistently […]
Final Weekend of the 2024 Mineral King Season
Business first First, an ad. I hope to see you all (my tens of readers) on Saturday! Mineral King Many people enjoy Mineral King in summer; fewer make it there in the fall, and a very few make it up in the winter (for many good reasons, beginning with the locked gates). I think of […]