Happy Birthday, Cory!! It is easy to go on and on and on about this subject. Tulare County landmark, favorite bridge, art. . . All of these paintings are sold and todayI’m giving you a break from all the “ads” (although you may commission me to repaint any of these bridge scenes for you!)
My Favorite Bridge in Oil Paint
There will be several chapters in this series about my favorite bridge, the Oak Grove Bridge on the Mineral King Road in Tulare County, California. (All those specifics are just in case you are new to the blog; if so, welcome!) Yesterday we looked at three pencil drawings of the bridge. Today I will show […]
My Favorite Bridge
My favorite bridge is the Oak Grove Bridge, 6.5 miles up the Mineral King Road. It is also my favorite subject to draw and paint. There are three reasons for this (maybe even more, but we’ll go with 3 for now): A bridge is the perfect blend of architecture with landscape. This bridge is a […]
Sort of Working
In July and August, I don’t teach regular drawing lessons. My students often say “enjoy your vacation” or “have a nice summer” as they are leaving (and several cannot resist the urge to sing “See You In September”). Although I do spend much more time in Mineral King in those 2 months, I am still […]
Leaving the Scary Scribble Stage
I worked for awhile on the oil painting commission of Homer’s Nose With The Oak Grove Bridge (WHAT shall this one be titled?? Snozz Rock? Sue’s View? The Nose And The Bridge? The Bridge and the Nose? Don’t Blow Your Nose On My Bridge?) And thus, we have successfully covered the great desert of a […]
What Did I Decide?
Not talking audibly to myself anymore, decisions made, work begun on the oil painting commission of Homer’s Nose with the Oak Grove Bridge. Madame Customer stopped by my studio to retrieve her photos and saw the scary version. She made another change to our plan, and I was eager to try it. Her suggestion was […]
Please May I Be Excused?
Do you remember being required to say that when you were done with dinner as a kid? (We might not have had to say “please”. . . it isn’t sounding familiar to me, but with that degree of rudeness, why was permission even required? Never mind.) The Redwood & Dogwood painting might be finished. The […]
Tricky Business on the Oak Grove Bridge
The Oak Grove Bridge on the Mineral King Road is my favorite subject to draw and paint, except when it isn’t. I’ve been inching along on this painting for months. The angle is unusual, the details are hard to see, and the colors are somewhat difficult to discern, all of it making for tricky business. […]
Further Figuring Out
This is Chapter Two in the story of figuring out how to design one commissioned oil painting of two different Tulare County landmarks. As a Tulare County artist, I am pleased to have been chosen for the task. The customer requested a different view of Homer’s Nose, and I have 5 photos from that point […]
Figuring Things Out
Isn’t “figuring things out” a strange grouping of words? But we all know what that means. . . puzzling over something, trial and error, plan A and plan B, lots of conversation. . . A long time friend asked me to do an oil painting of two significant Tulare County landmarks in her life. This […]