That’s me, talking to myself. Keep painting, Central California artist, keep painting! I messed up and ordered 4×6″ canvases instead of 6×6″. This means I have some adjusting to do and some decisions ot make. The first step is to see how it is to paint on this size and shape.
Mineral King Oil Painting Factory 4
This is an 8×8″ of my tied-in-second-place Mineral King oil painting subject, the Honeymoon Cabin. It was part of the resort; then Disney bought up parts of the resort in hopes of building a ski area. That didn’t happen, and now this little cabin is a museum of artifacts and photos of Mineral King. You […]
Mineral King Oil Painting Factory 3
Will these Mineral King oil paintings ever be finished? Yes. Then I’ll have to decide what to paint next. I’ll still need more Mineral King for my inventory (I’m painting ahead for the first time ever – finally have learned that summer starts on Memorial Day weekend and this year I will NOT be surprised.) […]
Mineral King Oil Painting Factory 2
Can you see that several paintings have some new paint on the mountains now? I paint from back to front; that means sky first, the farthest mountains next. Wait! What is this? I decided to finish the largest one first. Then, I got close to finishing the 2nd largest one. The need to get some something […]
Finished Oil Paintings
January was a productive month, all standard subjects that show off the beauty of Tulare County. November and December were good months, and my inventory got depleted. (This is a good thing.) There were actually FIFTEEN MORE, I am not kidding, FIFTEEN! But, they were too wet to scan at the time of this blog post. . . […]
What is that orange stuff?
Did you notice in the last photo of yesterday’s post that 4 little new paintings snuck onto the table? These were the beginnings of some vegetable paintings – 2 pumpkins, a tomato and a pepper (and no, I don’t want to discuss whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable). After I figured out […]
Mineral King Oil Painting Factory?
I feel like a Mineral King oil painting factory. Where is the variety? Where is the creativity? What’s going on here?? Part of the business of art is understanding what sells, and producing what one’s customers want to buy. This means painting the same things many many times if necessary. (Or I could become a […]
What’s Wrong With These Pictures??
These Mineral King oil paintings appear to be troubled. Sawtooth, the Oak Grove Bridge, and more Sawtooth, all looking topsy-turvy and scribbly.
Sawtooth Oil Painting in Stages
We last saw the Sawtooth oil painting looking quite rough. It has taken many hours, and the Fat Lady ain’t singing yet. (Close – she’s starting to warm up with a few scales.) And just in case you forgot, Sawtooth is the second most popular of the Mineral King oil painting subjects, tied with the […]
Painting Outside
By “painting outside”, I don’t mean painting plein air. I do mean that it was overcast and hard to see in the painting workshop, so I moved my stuff outside. It wasn’t cold, rainy or windy, so this was an easy solution. And White Chief needed a bit more drying time. First, had to flip […]