Walking isn’t as easy as it used to be. I walk shorter distances more slowly than I used to, wearing Crocs instead of these shoes, which I now have listed on eBay. Until the time change, my friend and I walked in the dark. Sometimes it felt adventuresome, as if we were getting away with […]
Hard Drawing and Painting Hard
Last week I did some sketching and designing for a very difficult pencil commission. It is breaking a hard and fast rule that I have set for myself, but I can’t figure out how to say no and still help the customer. It’s too scary to show you right now. . . more will be […]
A Day Without the Internet
Last week was a rough one for tech. My blog croaked, which led me to realize that my entire website was AWOL. This led to many phone calls, and a large expenditure. Then, when I had things working again, thanks to Rowland, Mario, Eva, and Ken Joe Sam (Really? No, really??), we had a day […]
Three Finished, Two Begun
These three turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself, which I just did. Don’t be scared; these will also turn out well. Simply Home CACHE Gallery hours are Fridays 1:30-4:00, Saturdays 10:00-4:00, Sundays noon-4:00. How To Draw, Tuesday, November 12, 6:30-7:30, at CACHE, 125 S. B Street, Exeter. Admission is FREE, but […]
Painting in the Workshop
Most artists paint in their studios. I reserve my studio for drawing and business-ish activities and do my painting in the building next door, a workshop. This is because painting is messier than drawing. I started with the commissioned piece which is now called Tom-ato’s Last Mater. A man named Tom was known for growing […]
Plein Air or Studio?
This is Asilomar State Beach, the first place I set up an easel to paint plein air, which means feet in the sand, wind in my hair, hair in my eyes, and easel fighting gravity. This is my painting of Asilomar Beach, brought into submission in the confines of my painting workshop (i.e. studio). This […]
Before the Solo Show “Simply Home”
Today’s post is a bit behind reality, a peek into what happened before the show was hung or opened. When I got home from Monterey, I had to dive into getting all my work together to deliver to CACHE, the gallery hosting my solo show, “Simply Home”. More than anything, I wanted to detail and […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey: One Last Peek
Among the 100 or so folks in Monterey at Fall Color Week, there were fantastic painters along with rank amateurs: my work fell solidly in the middle. I am a studio painter, and this whole thing stretched me. I could go on and on about what I learned, but I suspect that if you are […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey: Sunset and Sundries
Although I am still going on and on about the week of plein air painting in Monterey, now that Simply Home has opened, I will show a painting from the show each day until I either run out of paintings or run out of days. Each evening I ate dinner quickly, grabbed a to-go cup […]
Plein Air Painting in Monterey: Friends
As we spent time painting or at meals or meetings, we gradually got to know one another and learn names, although there was a lot of name-tag reading all week long. I met John Lynch of Toronto on the first day, so his name got cemented into my overloaded memory. John spent several mornings working […]