You may have noticed that I have been lollygagging quite a bit this year. I remember my dad describing himself as “semi-retired” when he was the age I am now. I think that is beginning to describe me. Go for a walk, hang out with some friends, organize some stuff, do a freebie job at […]
Cabin Life, Chapter Twenty-two (Finale)
Cabin Life, Chapter One
How to Draw With Graphite and Colored Pencils, Ch. 4
Pencil Reminiscing, Part Eleven
This is the final part of our Pencil Reminiscing series. This last set of pencil notecards is Mineral King again. This one was done near the end of the last century, after I figured out how to handle the textures of landscape views. I don’t remember where this set falls in the sequence of notecard […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tough Decision, Part Two
There are many seasoned artists who freely share their experience with other artists. One of the nuggets I’ve gleaned through the years is “Get rid of your junk”. There is no reason to keep things around that do not sell or do not represent your best work. The Cabins of Mineral King represented my best […]
Tough Decision, Part One
As a full time professional artist since 1993, I have accumulated a pile of work. It is overwhelming at times for several reasons. If I am looking for something in particular, I have to sift through many other things. If the flat file drawers get too crowded, some of the paper folds, squishes, migrates to […]