“Flipped” Out and Got a Flip UltraHD

I’ve gone back and forth over whether to add some way of shooting video on the upcoming trip to Mongolia. I looked at “real” camcorders and finally decided that another $600 and hauling a third thing that is bigger than a Nikon just wasn’t in the cards. But I was very skeptical of the little [...]

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EBay Auction: 5-18-09 Takhi Mare and Step by Step- SOLD

I’m running a little behind, so I’ll cover the art stuff that’s going to Mongolia with me next week. In the meantime, I think I’ve solved the hot-water-in-the-ger-problem with a nifty little “stove” that uses solid fuel cubes and is specifically ok for use in tents. More later once it gets here.
I thought that I [...]

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Lost and Found, Cont.- Two Demonstrations

It’s one thing to see and appreciate how other artists use techniques like “lost and found” when viewing their finished work. But I thought it might be useful to show a couple of step-by-step demonstrations of how I go about it. First, one in charcoal and then a second in oil paint.
Here’s a selection of [...]

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Marketing Our Art During the Financial Meltdown, Part 4 (That’s It For Now); New Paintings!

Take Care of Yourself!
Even in the best of times, and this ain’t them, it takes energy and decent health to put in the hours needed to paint and take care of all the other parts of having a career. It’s also easy to get down, if not depressed. You know you have to nurture your [...]

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Marketing Our Art During the Financial Meltdown, Part 2; A Work In Progress And…. Cute Cat Alert!

CONTINUING FROM LAST FRIDAY-
Strength in Numbers! If you think about it, one could say that the ability to be alone and self-motivate are prerequisites for being a working artist. In a sense, painting is a “solitary vice”. So, it may take some conscious effort, in planning the marketing of your work, to consider the multiplier [...]

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Marketing Our Art During A Financial Meltdown, Part 1; EBay; And This Just In: Andrew Wyeth Has Passed Away

Alex jumped up on the sofa next to me last night and flopped down. I grabbed my sketchbook and had about three minutes to do this sketch. He’s doing great. The other three are pretty much through the cat version of the five stages of grief. In their case it seems to be: Shock, Outrage, [...]

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New Year, New Painting and… A New Cat!

NEW PAINTING!
I was able to take many good pictures of Mongol horses on my trip there in September. This was a stallion who showed up with his harem very near the ger camp at Ikh Nartiin Chuluu late one afternoon. Due to lack of rain, all the herder families had left the area, along with [...]

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Happy New Year!

We had a great time with family for Christmas, including a trip up to the snow, which was only about 20 minutes east of us since the level had dropped to 1500 feet, pretty low for coastal California. I may have to try some winter landscapes, not something I’ve painted much due to almost never [...]

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100 Posts!- Culture Vultures in San Francisco and Snowy Roads

To my amazement, this is the one hundredth post that I’ve done since I started to blog last January. It seemed to happen so fast. I guess it really is true that time flies when you’re having fun. Thank you to everyone who reads and comments!
We just got back from a four day trip to [...]

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Posted on Terrierman!

There is a terrific earth dog blog called Terrierman’s Daily Dose. I sent him a jpeg of the Jack Russell terrier painting that appeared in the post “Dog Day Friday”. He liked it well enough that I’m a “guest” on his blog today!
He doesn’t just write about dogs, but also politics and whatever else catches [...]

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