These paintings are finished: detailed, varnished, scanned, priced, and ready to sell. The goal was to get them into Kaweah Arts before Labor Day. Well, oops, they were ready to deliver on Wednesday, but KA is closed on Wednesdays. Thursday before I headed to the Land of No Electricity, Phones, or Internet Unless you Have […]
Painting Three Rivers Paintings in Three Rivers*
“Painting” can be a noun or a verb. In this case, it is both. After 3 wifi-less days, there were many little tasks** to attend to, and when I finally got into the workshop to paint, it was a real treat. Made a couple more adjustments on the barn, then moved it into the sunshine […]
Helping a Friend in Three Rivers
There is a house above us on the hill that has been empty for a little over a year. The residents got old and went the way of all flesh, but the family can’t stand the idea of letting the house go. So, it is becoming a vacation rental, and granddaughter of the residents is […]
Painting Differently
Sometimes when I oil paint, I try to finish in one layer. It seldom works, and requires another layer of better detailing. Other times, I plan on finishing in two layers. Still others, I expect to keep repainting the scene, over and over and over. In ArtSpeak, this is called “glazing”, and it is the […]
Sort of Finished
Whoda thunk we’d get rain in Three Rivers in August? It came on a day I had planned to paint, but I didn’t let the low light stop me. However, I held back on thinking any of these paintings were finished. When the sun comes out, I’ll have another think about the state of their […]
Twelve Things (Plus 5 Subcategories) Learned in August
2. In late July on two consecutive days right around 5:45, we heard a tree fall on the slope above our cabin. The Farmer asked if I knew why they fell, and of course I said, “because they were dead”. Nope. It was hot out, the trees sucked up a ton of water from the […]
River, lake, sequoia tree, river, lake, sequoia tree, river. . .
With the exception of Jeff’s Garden (a commissioned oil painting) and painting a giant sequoia on a wooden panel, I have not painted this summer. This was planned, not accidental. The swamp cooler in the workshopo is loud, fairly inadequate for our summer heat, and has been springing leaks all summer. Kaweah Arts, a great […]
Not Too Much
And that is the answer to “Hey Central California Artist, what are you working on these days?” Odd Job My friend G explained that he just needs an outline of what might pass for the tops of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stretched across a single 12 foot panel. Jimmy delivered four for some unknown reason. […]
Needing a Master’s Degree…
…or perhaps a PhD. The topic? Trickinology. Visual trickinology. I’m drawing Reimers Candies and Gifts from a straight-on view, something that isn’t really possible to see in real life. Well, maybe it is, but it would take a wide-angle lens, and the resultant drawing would be an entirely unwieldy shape for reproducing as cards. Here […]
More Quarter-Inching
This might put you to sleep. It almost did me, in combination with getting up at 5:30 AM, 103°, and the droning hum of the barely adequate AC. Can you even tell the difference from the first photo to the second one? Prolly not because my T-square was over the unfinished lower rocks of the […]