The Redbud Festival was really good this year. It wasn’t hot, it combined with First Saturday in Three Rivers, it was at the Memorial Building and I had an indoor space. Look at some of the paintings that sold: This isn’t actually the painting that sold. This one sold a few years ago, and my […]
Mineral King Paintings in Progress
Every year summer happens. This is not a surprise. Summer means lots of time in Mineral King. It means paintings of Mineral King get sold at the Silver City Store. This is not a surprise either. Every year I am just certain that this will be The Year I Paint Ahead. This year I actually […]
Sold!
The Studio Tour was a success in many ways. I found 2 new drawing students, saw old friends and students, met new friends, made contact with folks that I’d only talked to on the phone before, and lots of other important things. And, these are some of the paintings that sold. Meadow Fence, 10×10, oil […]
Watching Paint Dry
Last week I shared my thoughts about how the world is now wanting things to be juiced up. Here is the juiced up version of a new Mineral King painting, with enhanced versions of two other paintings, all drying in the painting studio while it is RAINING OUTSIDE!! It is hard to tell that the […]
Thoughtful Thursdays – A Juiced Up Life
Now that the drawings for The Cabins of Wilsonia are finished, I’m thinking about oil painting again. I’d like to make a 2015 calendar of paintings, and need to decide if I have any that can be used or if I need to do 13 new paintings. Thirteen? A year has 12 months, a calendar has […]
Sawtooth on a Notecard
Anyone out there still hand write cards? Send thank you cards? Send a card just because you ran into an old friend and wanted to tell her on paper in a lasting way how happy you were to see her? This is one of the best paintings I’ve done in my shortish painting career. (That’s […]
New Mineral King Painting
It is Friday, so here is a little piece of Mineral King for you to dream about: Vandever in Autumn, 8×8″, oil on wrapped canvas, $95
A Bazaar With Knitting, Calendars, Tees, and a Mineral King Box
That is a bizarre title; please be impressed with the way I incorporated Mineral King into a Friday post. (Tahoe is postponed until next week.) Would you like to see some of the things I will have at tomorrow’s bazaar? Great, glad you asked. The lavender purse is spoken for – please forgive me for […]
Mineral King is Closed
Hmmm, this is all so weird. I will refrain from sharing my opinion about the government shut down, because people come to this blog to be entertained and inspired. Discussing a difficult and divisive subject could possibly be entertaining, but I doubt if it would be inspiring. Have a look at a painting of a […]
New and Improved Farewell Gap
Last year I did an oil painting of a standard Mineral King scene, Farewell Gap. It didn’t sell. No big deal. I took it to shows and put it on my website. It didn’t sell. What gives? I took it back to the Silver City Store this year and everything has sold so far except […]