Here’s a catch-all, catch-up post for you on random topics. My blog post ideas are triggered by pictures, and these were just languishing in the file without purpose. This painting was very difficult. I worked on it from real life, and from several different photos taken at different times of year. This is the final iteration […]
Goodbye, Steve
1961 – 2015 STEVE was charismatic, confident, intense, competitive in many sports, and my brother-in-law for almost 30 years. It’s hard to imagine our family without him.
Random Thoughts
Random is a good word for unrelated items piling up in my head. Thank you for visiting my other blog this week. I hope you poked around and discovered things that interested and entertained you a bit while over there. Most of my sunflowers escaped the ravages of the voracious deer in the neighborhood. The […]
A Little Bit Too Hard
Sometimes I paint things that are a little bit too hard for me. They are not commissions, nor are they subjects that I think will sell. Instead, they are things that I just want to paint, in spite of my lack of skill or experience. After I have completed paintings that need to be done […]
A Very Happy Day
This will be a very personal post, not about my art or Tulare County or Mineral King or Three Rivers. In the past week or two, I have alluded to a family crisis. In short, my brother-in-law has been diagnosed with a glioblastoma, the very sort of brain tumor that took out my dad 15 […]
Special Interruptive Post
Please excuse me for bombarding you with 2 posts in one day. There are two pieces of news that cannot wait: The book printer notified me that the book binder will be shipping the books (The Cabins of Wilsonia) to me on Friday. That means they get loaded onto pallets and into a truck on Friday […]
A Random List – Learned in January
While away over the weekend, I learned many new things. Here they are as they pop into my head: Google Maps can be used to see photos of the road and Carol showed me how! Single plied yarn knits up visibly different from multiple plied yarn (I always thought I was doing something wrong but […]
Thinking like an artist
You know how you just cruise along, living your life, not giving any thought to how you measure up to anyone else? (Maybe you think about other people’s opinions, but I don’t very often.) So you’re just cruising along, doing what you do, doing what comes naturally, and BOOM! Someone tells you that you are […]
Too Much Beauty?
One of my favorite authors is John Eldredge. In Journey of Desire, he writes this about beauty:“We need not fear indulging here. The experience of beauty is unique to all the other pleasures in this: there is no possessive quality to it. Just because you love the landscape doesn’t mean you have to acquire the […]