These paintings are finished: detailed, varnished, scanned, priced, and ready to sell. The goal was to get them into Kaweah Arts before Labor Day. Well, oops, they were ready to deliver on Wednesday, but KA is closed on Wednesdays. Thursday before I headed to the Land of No Electricity, Phones, or Internet Unless you Have […]
Helping a Friend in Three Rivers
There is a house above us on the hill that has been empty for a little over a year. The residents got old and went the way of all flesh, but the family can’t stand the idea of letting the house go. So, it is becoming a vacation rental, and granddaughter of the residents is […]
Painting Differently
Sometimes when I oil paint, I try to finish in one layer. It seldom works, and requires another layer of better detailing. Other times, I plan on finishing in two layers. Still others, I expect to keep repainting the scene, over and over and over. In ArtSpeak, this is called “glazing”, and it is the […]
Sort of Finished
Whoda thunk we’d get rain in Three Rivers in August? It came on a day I had planned to paint, but I didn’t let the low light stop me. However, I held back on thinking any of these paintings were finished. When the sun comes out, I’ll have another think about the state of their […]
River, lake, sequoia tree, river, lake, sequoia tree, river. . .
With the exception of Jeff’s Garden (a commissioned oil painting) and painting a giant sequoia on a wooden panel, I have not painted this summer. This was planned, not accidental. The swamp cooler in the workshopo is loud, fairly inadequate for our summer heat, and has been springing leaks all summer. Kaweah Arts, a great […]
Oil Painting Some Local Stuff
What word did people use before “stuff” became so ubiquitous? A little more work on these quail made it good enough to sign. More work ahead on this one: The scanner could not do this justice, so I put it in the sunshine and took a photo with my inferior phone camera. And this one […]
Quick and Cold
The other day I had to go to Visalia (AKA Big Town) for the morning. In the afternoon, there were pressing responsibilities on the computer (scan some things, email them to folks who had requested such things, try a few more adaptations to the cover of the book I am working on (as editor and […]
March Forth on March Fourth
This pencil drawing was done from several photos taken in the campground Sequoia RV Ranch up North Fork Drive in Three Rivers. Like the other drawings used in the 2026 calendar, the original is on a piece of 11×14” archival paper. It is for sale. $375 (plus tax if you live in California) or make […]
Five Steps Closer on this One
If you receive this in your email and want to see the photos, click on the title. This painting was waiting patiently for some attention. I gave it an entire afternoon, photographing it at 5 stages. First, I put in some sky patches in the upper left. Next, I strengthened the trees. They are all […]
Spider Webs on the Easels No More
There are actual spider webs on my easels after a summer off. I didn’t take the summer off on purpose; there simply wasn’t any reason to add to inventory. Now there are reasons to paint: the Holiday Bazaar will be November 18, St. Anthony Retreat has requested small paintings to sell in their gift shop, […]