For the past several summers, I have sold oil paintings of Mineral King scenes at the Silver City Store. This summer I took up 3 6×6″ and 3 8×10″. Each time I go to Mineral King, I stop by the store (we think of it as “The Store”) to see how the paintings are selling. […]
Framing on Short Notice
I have many unframed pencil drawings. It costs a lot of money to frame a picture. I have a lot of frames, and a big box of mats. Matching drawings with mats and frames is a process. “Process” is a nice businessy word that actually means ‘BIG FAT HASSLE”. This is how I frame on […]
Show on Short Notice
Told you it was a busy week! So busy that I forgot to post. I received a “Call to Artists”. This is ArtSpeak for “Hey, wanna put your art in a show?” The point of the show is to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service. The duration of the show is August […]
Busy Week Ahead
Today I want you to see the list of things I hope to take care of this week. It will relieve you of any illusions of an artist just happily creating under amazing peaceful inspiration. (That’ll teach me to run off to Israel for 2 weeks when there is work to be done!) Finish preparing […]
Odd Job
As an artist in business since 1987 in Tulare County (full time since 1993), I occasionally get asked to do odd jobs. It is challenging and usually fun. If an artist is established and available, it is one of the many parts of the business of art. A giclee is a reproduction on canvas done […]
Almost Done Designing a Book
“Done” designing a book? Stick a fork in me, I’m done. When did we start substituting the word “done” for “finished”? Who cares? I’m almost done! Here is what remains on my book design project for Louise. Learn how to design the back cover. Design the back cover, making sure it is prepared properly for […]
And More Designing a Book
I offered to design a book for an author friend. Let’s call her “Louise”, because that is her name. Louise discussed it with the 3 people who commissioned her to write their story, and they gratefully accepted my offer. I read up on book design, learning most of what I needed from The Book Designer‘s […]
More Designing a Book
I thought I knew what was necessary about designing a book, because I designed my book The Cabins of Wilsonia. That book involved preparing pencil drawings using Photoshop Elements, a few pages of text, all the frontmatter (that’s Book Speak for the pages of a book that are not the main part that normal people […]
Designing a Book
What is book design? That’s a question I asked back in 1998 when Jane Coughran and I published The Cabins of Mineral King. The answer was too complex and computerish for me to comprehend. We paid someone to prepare our book for printing, and I had no understanding whatsoever of what was involved. When I […]
Instructions to Buy Stuff Without Paypal
I got an email asking how to buy stuff from my website without Paypal. Some people don’t have or want a Paypal account. I understand; I feel that way about Facebook, Twitter, having a “smart” phone, and various other “conveniences” in life. (Don’t even get me started on “Square” . . . bah, humbug.) I’ll put […]