I have a wise friend who is both diplomatic and honest. She told me that a few of my paintings didn’t reflect my usual care, or perhaps she said they weren’t up to my usual standards— “lacking in detail and clarity”. (There were a couple of paragraphs so I’m summarizing here.) I blamed the old […]
Walking Down the Mineral King Road and Up the Nature Trail
Gird your loins—this is a long post. With my new-to-me iPhone 14 in hand, I walked down the Mineral King Road to Cold Springs Campground (STILL CLOSED—CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN OR SOMETHING!) and back up the Nature Trail. This is about 2-1/2 miles total. Let’s look at the flowers I found along the road. I actually […]
Gittin’ ‘er dun at the Easel
This painting had the tightest deadline of all the paintings in progress. After a day of doing many non-painting projects, I got a day to paint uninterrupted (except for Jackson). The edges are painted. It needed to dry, be signed, get photographed, varnished and get rewired from its previous iteration as a horizontal painting. This […]
Painting Sawtooth on a Very Hot Day
Really Painting Sawtooth Again
Are You Really Painting Sawtooth Again?
Painting More Than Sawtooth
Almost Finished with the Sawtooth Paintings
Lots of Sawtooths (Sawteeth? Nah)
Tiptoeing Along on Several Oil Paintings
Why tiptoeing? Because it feels slow and careful at this stage, like I am just feeling my way along, trying to be as careful as possible. First up, Sawtooth, the commissioned oil painting. Second, rebuild the Kaweah Post Office, also a commissioned oil painting. Third, plant some grasses. (Oil paint grasses, not fescue or bermuda […]