The tall narrow (12×24”) oil painting of Sawtooth has a deadline. There is a narrow but visible spot in the Silver City Store where I hang a tall narrow Mineral King painting each summer. Last summer I took up a tall and narrow painting of that classic Mineral King view on Memorial Day weekend. Somewhat […]
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 […]
Spoken-for Sequoia
The spoken-for, in-progress Sequoia painting jumped to the top of the queue. Here you can see it in steps to completion. The light was wrong in the afternoon so I moved the easel to the opposite side of the table. When the painting was finished, I had to flip it upside down to paint the […]
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 […]
What a Week!
I finally had a couple of hours to put my paintings back after surveying them for the upcoming solo show, “Around Here and Sometimes a Little Farther” in August. Once again, I was so pleased with my little studio where I draw and display art that I took some more photos. A friend/former neighbor was […]