How does one keep coming up with appealing titles for the same topic? One doesn’t. When I begin to put the details in, I’ll stop moaning about the pace. It helps to listen to a book on CD, and I’ve got a good one going right now. One of Us by Tawni O’Dell is still good on CD […]
Odd Job
As an artist with a lengthy reputation of reliability and skill in the same county for several decades, I get asked to do many odd things in the name of art. It is just part of the business of art. Some friends have a painting of Mineral King by a long-deceased relative, someone who wasn’t […]
Recently Completed
See? I have been working, despite the all the travelogue posts. (It takes more days to show and tell about a trip than the trip actually lasted).
Plein Air at Home
We interrupt this travelogue to bring you more examples of practicing and putting to use the skills I learned in Georgia. The Kaweah Post Office was awful. I spent more time on it in the painting studio. The next time, I set up inside the painting workshop with the giant doors open up to the […]
Vertical Mineral King Painting
In looking through my photos to choose new Mineral King subjects (or new approaches to old subjects), I kept going back to a photo of some fisherpeople in the stream. Finally I decided to narrow it down to the parts that matter and try it on a vertical 6×18″ canvas. This is as far as […]
Painting Animals
No motivational quotes today, just some paintings in progress. P.S. Here is the promised info on the memorial service for The Cowboy.Bert Raymond Weldon, May 21, 1956 — January 8, 2019CELEBRATION OF LIFE AND RECEPTION Friday, March 15, 2019, 11:00 a.m. CrossCity Christian Church, 2777 E. Nees Avenue, Fresno, California 93720
Eggs, One More Time
Before we have one more little talk about eggs, here is Samson, in case you were wondering.Ethan’s eggs are so interesting to me that I took many photos and started 2 new paintings. These are in the category of This Looks A Little Bit Too Hard So I Will Challenge Myself. The little plate will […]
Speaking of Eggs
Yesterday’s post was about not drawing a face smaller than an egg; today’s is about Ethan’s Eggs. Who is Ethan? He is a kid in town who raises chickens that produce eggs of several colors. They are quite beautiful, so I decided to convert a painting of a plum to a painting of Ethan’s eggs. […]
A Lavender Painting
This is a view of my friend Barbara’s French Lavender in Three Rivers. Livingston Lavender Farms, named after her grandmother who built the home, will be open soon for you to come harvest lavender. June 15? More will be revealed. Imagine a blank journal with lines inside and this painting on the cover for around […]
A Yarn Painting Finds a New Home
Whenever I find myself with a little waiting time, spare time, car time, or am procrastinating, I usually knit. Makes sense that an artist who loves to knit would also paint yarn, yes? Loves Cotton, Loves to Knit, 8×8″, oil on wrapped canvas, $100 A quilting friend also loves to knit, and she bought one […]