Drawing a Cabin I’ve Never Seen
Completed Cabin Drawing
Hockett Meadow, Two Pencil Drawings
Old Drawing, New Cards
In 1992, I did this commissioned pencil drawing of a Mineral King cabin. The one who owns it sent me a photo of the card she had left from an earlier order. I tried to turn it into something that would print as a decent card. This was not acceptable. The customer said she still […]
Lucky on Amazon?
On Friday’s post I said that the only way to get a copy of The Cabins of Mineral King, by Jane Coughran and me, published by Cabinart Books in 1998, is to get lucky on eBay or on Amazon. Then I decided to look for myself. Nothing on eBay, and this is what was on Amazon. […]
Finishing a Drawing 20 Years Later
In 1998, Jane Coughran and I published The Cabins of Mineral King*. Some of the drawings crossed over the center seam of the book to cover 2 pages. Some of the drawings were an odd shape to accommodate words. This is one of those drawings (only photographed, not scanned and touched up for the web, so the […]
Final Final Cabin Thoughts, Maybe
There are three distinct parts to cabin-ness: The building itself – small, rustic, basic, simple, often without electronic amenities. (But wait! What about the cabin pictured above?) The setting – rural, semi-secluded, in the mountains, taking an effort to get to (But wait! Have you ever been up Highway 180 to Wilsonia? And do these […]
A Few More Cabin Thoughts
The posts called Cabin Thoughts (Part One, Part Two, and Part Three), were popular among my readers, generating conversations through comments, email, snail mail, and in person. Now that our cabin is closed for the season, I’d like to share a few more thoughts. A dear friend of many years, Natalie, sent these thoughts, titled […]
Cabin Thoughts, Part 2
I looked up “cabin” on my Mac. The dictionary on my computer has fairly useless definitions as far as our discussion is concerned. Cabin may refer to: Beach cabin, a small wooden hut on a beach Log cabin, a house built from logs Cottage, a small house Chalet, a wooden mountain house with a sloping […]