It has been ten years since we had that spectacular poppy season in Three Rivers. I still find them when I walk and in in my yard, but never since have we had them in such abundance. While I was conducting the private oil painting workshop, I painted two poppy paintings. It is good to […]
Oil Painting Workshop Day 2
On Day 2 of the oil painting workshop, we didn’t spend too much time mixing colors. Everyone took her palette home, covered in plastic wrap, and stored it in the freezer until the 2nd class. We dove right into painting, beginning with recoating the green, but this time we added details to resemble grasses and […]
House Oil Painting Commission
I figured out that I could paint from looking at the photos on my computer screen. It is a little annoying that I have to keep waking it up, but I can deal with some annoyance. As I worked on this, several parts were not visible. So, I stepped out my door. Would you look […]
Painting While I Am Waiting
While I am waiting for photographs from which to paint a commission of a house, I have to paint something. Redbud Festival is coming, May 7-8, so I need paintings to sell. Small paintings, bright paintings: these sell well. Sounds like fruit and poppies to me. This is 6×6″ and went fairly quickly. Now, a […]
More Poppy Peeping
This poppy peeping trip was up North Fork Drive out of Three Rivers. It was with one friend in a Mustang convertible that her Mom bought on her 88th Christmas. (No, my friend isn’t 88 – it was her Mom who was 88). It was a great top-down day, and sometimes I just stood on […]
Finishing the murals
Did you think I was going to leave you hanging as to how the Tanzania mural looked? Customer called to say the cape buffalo needed about 1/2 hour of work. I was relieved to hear from him, because my final day working on them was without his expertise. I’ve never seen those animals, except in […]
Poppy Peeping
When the poppies are out, there is no time to be wasted! Get out and see them, now! 2008 was a spectacular poppy year for all the foothills in Central California, and it was a source of great inspiration to this Central California artist. 2016 is looking almost as good. A few friends and I […]
Four Little Poppies
“Four Little Poppies” sounds like the title of a book I loved as a kid called “Five Little Peppers (and How They Grew). It’s sort of a given that a California artist would paint California poppies. This little 4×4” oil painting of poppies needed something more, so I added blue. It wasn’t enough, so I […]
What Else Would You Expect a California Artist to Paint?
As a Central California artist, there are certain subjects that dominate my painting life. If you have read this blog for any amount of time, I bet you can guess. If you are new to this blog, welcome! You don’t have to guess because I am about to show you. These two 11x 14″ paintings, […]
2008 Wasn’t All Bad
You know how everyone refers to 2008 as the year that the economy went south? (How insulting to our Southern friends that “going south” is a euphemism for going bad – it means going downward, oh Gentle Southern Reader.) In Three Rivers, California, 2008 was the Year The Poppies Were Incredibly Abundant and Shockingly Beautiful. […]