This the season of pumpkin spice everything. This blog post is pumpkin, minus the spice. I posted this photo of paintings in progress. A regular blog reader said she’d like to buy the painting. I touched it up, signed it, varnished it, and mailed it off to her. I forgot to scan it, so this […]
Summer Sales, Part Two
Did you forget that I was showing you the Mineral King oil paintings that sold in Silver City over the summer? Here is the other half: As before, the sizes shown here are a little whacky in terms of how they are relative to one another. I was shocked by the stellar rise of the […]
A Tree Grows
While I was growing a tree, this was happening outside the painting workshop.
Little Boutique in Lemon Cove
Happy Birthday, Jim! (We’re still in the Fs. . .) Ever been to Lemon Cove? If you’ve gone to Sequoia from Visalia, you’ve passed through it. I think of it as Lemon Curve. . . a few curves on the highway, and you are outta there. There’s a little boutique at the Lemon Cove Womans […]
The Rest of the Sequoia Oil Painting Saga
SS brought me this oil painting: I thought it was this one: Then I thought it was this one: I can’t find the photo that I used to paint any of these, so I have to rely on my experience of painting Sequoia trees to just improve the painting. Here it is wet on the […]
The Story Behind a Painting
Sequoia trees are one of my biggest subjects to paint. Well, duh, they are the biggest trees in the world. But that’s not what I mean – I paint Sequoias over and over and over. A few weeks ago a girl whom I will call SS called to say she found a Sequoia oil painting […]
Turned on the Swamp Cooler
What sort of stupid-sounding blog post title is that? An honest one. I paint better when I am not overheated, and in spite of the calendar having turned to autumn, the swamp cooler in the painting workshop is still in use. I painted better this session than the last one because I was more comfortable. […]
In Progress, Pencil and Oil
It was still hot last week. I painted awhile in the workshop but didn’t turn on the swamp cooler. Probably should have. Painted slowly, quit early. I retreated to the studio and turned on the air conditioner. While listening to interviews with the very smart and entertaining Mike Rowe, I began this pencil commission. I […]
New Beginning
Isn’t that title redundant? Probably. Every time I begin, it is on a new project. A thoughtful mom bought a painting of an iris for her daughter named Iris. She has another daughter named Camille and requested a camellia for her. Luckily, I have a good photo of a camellia in bloom, remembered the month […]
Random Round-up Including Mineral King History
Today is a round-up of several topics, including Mineral King. The 2019 calendars are selling steadily – $15 includes sales tax, and I am willing to eat the mailing costs, yum yum. (The Three Rivers Post Office is actually a pleasure to visit.) Yes, that is Sawtooth Peak on the cover, one of the most […]