In anticipation of a busy selling season this summer at the Silver City Store, I am painting like fury to have inventory. If I can get enough small pieces finished ahead of time, then I can return to painting larger Tulare County scenes for the solo show in the fall at CACHE in Exeter. The […]
Sold in Spring: 17 Paintings, 3 Pencil Drawings
Sales were slow last year, mostly due to the fact of my three selling locations either being closed or taking a big hit of one sort or another. This spring, things broke loose, opened up, took off. Have a look! (I may have forgotten some, because I fell out of the habit of keeping track.) […]
More Better Than Befores
And thus we conclude our tour through paintings of Tulare County, better than before. I think one must see the paintings in person to properly appreciate the subtle improvements Now if you will please excuse me, I have a commissioned pencil drawing to begin. Tomorrow: Pennsylvania Dog in Pencil
Eight on the Easels
Eight WHAT on the easels? So glad you asked! Eight oil paintings of Mineral King are on my easels. Sometimes they are on a table, sometimes they are in my hands while I paint. After putting a base coat on the canvases to bury the white, I painted skies on all eight. Three are the […]
A One-Person Oil Painting Factory
After the Redbud Festival, it took awhile to rearrange everything in the studio and the painting workshop. I returned many of the paintings to Kaweah Arts, but not all that I had “borrowed”. While sitting in my booth at the Redbud Festival, I had a lot of time to assess my paintings. I made lists […]
Just a Regular Work Day
Well, not exactly regular, because it involved gathering paintings from Kaweah Arts and pricing them for the Redbud Festival. But that is all part of the business of art in the life of your Central California Artist. I started 3 new sequoia paintings so that Kaweah Arts has back stock. Then it was time to […]
Better than Before, New and Improved
“Old and Improved” is a bit more accurate than “New and Improved”. If something is new, how can it be an improvement?? Here are three more paintings that I have made better than before. In the time since I first painted these, I have gotten better at painting. (“Better” means “better in my opinion”.) This […]
Before and After, New and Improved
As I study some of my paintings and live with them, I see ways to make them better. So, I touch them up to improve them. Just another peek into the work of a Tulare County artist, bumbling along here in Central California. Sometimes you just can’t tell on a computer screen because they photographed […]
Three paintings, two discomforts, and two jobs for Pippin
Three paintings After getting some input from a smart and honest artist friend, I tackled this one again. It is much better, but it needs to hang around for a bit before I decide if it is good enough to sign. This painting of the Honeymoon Cabin has been with me for three years, and […]
Mineral King in September
Yes, I know it is still April. Before I left for Texas, I painted this view of the Mineral King valley as it looks from the Timber Gap trail in September. The first layer was done a few days earlier, but I didn’t take any pictures. I left it wet on the easel to put […]