After a very productive week in the studio, I returned to the wall today and was greeted by this sight: This is Channel 26’s Great Day camera man and reporter Clayton Clark. Clayton did a fake-out while I was unloading my supplies. He wore a little thingie in his ear so the folks […]
Nice place to escape the heat
Mineral King Morning, 11×14″, oil on wrapped canvas, $175
Time in Mineral King (instead of just painting it)
A picture is worth a thousand words – here are 11,000 words for you to enjoy. Click on them to see them larger. Entering White Chief bowl This is as far as we went; still much snow remains Lots of Blue Lips out! The next day we went to Empire. This is an old road […]
Day Ten on the Mural
What a nice day to paint! It was a detail day, so large amounts of ground weren’t covered, but smaller amounts were fully completed. (maybe. . .)
Day Nine on the Mural
Not as hot today – phew! The mules turned out well, but the final pronouncement of their worthiness is pending approval by my mule friends, the Weldons. I think they look great from the standpoint of light and dark ( “values” in Artspeak). However, I may have painted their legs too skinny or their ears […]
Day Eight on the Mural (snow!)
Summer has truly arrived. It was hot on the lift at 9 a.m. so after working on the “snapshot” of mules, I put the machine away and stood on the ground where there was a bit of a breeze. It is definitely easier to visit with passers-by when we are both standing on the ground; […]
Peculiar sight
In Mineral King there are some critters called “marmots”. (Every letter is pronounced unlike “merlot”) To the untrained eye, they appear to be cute. To those in the know, they are a PAIN. In late spring and early summer they have a peculiar habit of chewing on wires and hoses in cars. They like radiator […]
Day Seven on the Mural
When I arrived this morning, there was a section of mural that said “DO ME!” (perhaps I am exaggerating or hallucinating at that early hour). So, that section got completed today. Maybe. It may need more detail, but hard to say at this point. You can see I am adding little patches of this and […]
Day Six on the Mural
Today there were lots of rocks and green patches to be painted. Most of the rocks look alike, and despite working from an 8×10 photo, they are teenie-tiny. After needing someone to send out Search and Rescue teams, I finally blocked out the area on the photo and on the wall, and taped the photo […]
Day Five on the Mural
What a nice day! The sun hitting me wasn’t a huge problem so I painted until it hit my palette at almost 2:30. Wow, good thing, because today I moved into the fiddly stuff – lots and lots of rocks. See? There were lots of visitors today and I snuck photos of a few of […]