Do you remember during the last post about the Three Rivers History Museum Mineral King mural that I advised you to stay tuned? This week we resume our ongoing saga of Mineral King murals. A man built a cabin facade (sorry, I don’t know how to make the little comma in the air above the […]
New Mural in Three Rivers, Chapter 3
The Mineral King mural in Three Rivers is in this building. This is how the mural looked when I arrived on Day #2. Tower is in place, background sort of finished, trees located. In the last post I said it is quiet in the museum. Ahem. Not on Day #2! A cabin facade is getting […]
New Mural In Three Rivers, Chapter Two
I may have estimated my time to be longer than anticipated for the new mural at the Three Rivers Museum.. Perhaps the customer will think I am over charging. Guess I’d better moan on and on about how difficult this is. All that moaning about difficulty was fake. This might be the easiest location I have […]
New Mural in Three Rivers
Yesterday I began a new mural in the Three Rivers Museum’s new Mineral King Room. The internet was on vacation, so you get to see the beginnings today. This is the only photo I have of the Three Rivers Museum. Paul Bunyon doesn’t belong here, except that Carroll Barnes of Three Rivers carved him from […]
Final Fall Visit to Mineral King
Yesterday morning at 8:30 a.m. Trail Guy was reading the weather, and together we faced the unpleasant reality that we might be closing our Mineral King cabin during a rain shower if we waited until the weekend. So, by a little after 9, we were in the Botmobile heading up the hill to git-‘er-dun. Rather […]
Mineral King From My Pencils
Why didn’t I choose to finish one of those other drawings? I dunno. Sometimes I just don’t wanna. (Why doesn’t my boss fire me??) This picture grabbed my attention because it is in Mineral King (White Chief, at the very top end of the trail). It also was appealing because of the reeds and grasses […]
Hard Water in Mineral King
This is Tulare County, pencil drawing, from Mineral King. It is Spring Creek. It could be anywhere. If I have this at a show and someone says, “Oh! Is that Yosemite?!”, then my answer will be, “If you would like it to be Yosemite, then it is Yosemite for you”. Let the record reflect that […]
One Last Trip to White Chief
White Chief is my favorite short hike in Mineral King. Last Friday I showed you a few photos of the last weekend in Mineral King. Today you get the rest. Three main things were occupying my time this summer: a trip to Israel, designing more coloring books, and training for a walking half-marathon. When I […]
One More Mineral King Oil Painting?
These Mineral King oil paintings seem to be reproducing while I have my back turned. Maybe I should have left the light on, or maybe I should not have taken that road trip. Ha. Don’t I wish they just reproduced on their own. This is the one that was on my easel when I started […]
The Last Oil Paintings in Mineral King
“Last” is one of those many faceted English words. Here it means the most recent Farewell Gap, Mineral King oil paintings. There are more depictions of Farewell Gap, on murals, in pencil and in 2 coloring books (drawn in ink). However, in the interest of relieving monotony, I won’t continue this theme in other media. (Did […]