In the mornings I meet my friend and her cat so we can power up a steep road in the neighborhood. Some mornings there are turkeys yelling in the middle of the road. None of this keeps me too busy to paint. I just wanted you to see these pictures. There is a large project […]
An Unusual Job in Three Rivers
Some folks in Three Rivers with a horse-breeding ranch asked me to turn their hand-scratched map into a thing of beauty. It doesn’t need to be to-scale, but all the pastures, corrals, gates, arenas, barns, ponds, and various buildings need to be in proper relation to one another. This necessitated a walk around the place, […]
Well, I WAS Going to Work…
On a recent weekend, I said to Trail Guy, “I MUST paint on Monday! Do not distract me, and please, please, if you see me messing around in the yard or the house, remind me that I must paint because I messed around all week, postponing painting!” On Monday, he said, “Want to drive up […]
More Spring in Three Rivers—a Month Late
I wrote this post at the end of March and forgot to publish it. Will any of these photos translate into paintings? Maybe. No decisions yet. Just grabbing beauty when it is available. The Lake isn’t actually in Three Rivers. The upper end is close; the dam end is closer to Lemon Cove. The lake […]
More photos, thoughts about Three Rivers vacation rentals
These are photos that could have been used in yesterday’s posts about what I learned in April. But since I am not working very much and Mineral King isn’t open yet, I saved some of them for today. This white flower is a brodiaea that comes near the end of spring. Each one of those […]
Fading Spring in Three Rivers
The old rhyme “April showers bring May flowers” isn’t exactly true in Three Rivers. Here it is more that April showers prolong March flowers. The turkeys are very busy right now. Too bad we don’t know where they lay their eggs; on the other hand, if you found a turkey egg, it might have a […]
Fabulous and Varied Daffodils
In my little piece of Three Rivers, the deer don’t eat daffodils. Maybe they don’t taste as good as the native plants that are available around here in the spring. The gophers don’t bother them either. So, last December when the bulbs were on sale in Michigan (online), I bought a ton and planted them […]
Successful Drawing Workshop
The recent drawing workshop in Three Rivers was successful; everyone learned, and everyone had a good time, including your Central California artist, in her role as a drawing teacher. We met at someone’s house on the river, a place full of beauty, so there are photos of things that caught my fancy along with photos […]
One Morning in April
Not quite as pretty as the morning when I took the photo to paint Sunrise over the Kaweah River. T (my walking partner) and I see these bunnies almost every morning. We don’t understand how they survive. Blue dick and common madia are still going strong. It was a morning to spend in the yard. […]
Sunrise Over the Kaweah River
Remember this messy beginning? After finishing the new little paintings to sell in local galleries and gift shops, I returned to this 16×20” painting, which felt like a mural after those 6×6” canvases. There was another painting session between the photo above and the next one. I didn’t take any photos because sometimes I just […]