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Monsoon season always has me gasping at beauty in every direction.My profession in these rainy months is a cloud chaser. Generally I start a ton of drawings of storms and fast moving skies and feel fortunate when I finish any of them. … Continue reading Cloud Chasing
Living a Still Life I’ve been having a peruse into the past, and found this article by my friend Louise Steinman, who visited me on Crete several times over the 20 years I was there. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Peace on Earth; Living a Still Life; On the Island of Crete, Sharing an Artist’s … Continue reading Living a Still Life…my years on Crete
Askew I am enamored of the slickrock formations right on Highway 12 in Boulder Town. Unfortunately it is hard to park on even terrain to draw them, but still too cold and windy for drawing outdoors. Aphrodite is needed, and she is askew, parked on the roadside. Aphrodite’s slant has poor Sophy, my dog, slumped … Continue reading Askew/Serendipity
Long Canyon, apart from being absolutely gorgeous with its infinite range of orange-red walls, stripes of desert varnish, cracks and fissures and magical water pockets, is also plowed in the winter and wide enough so that I can park Aphrodite. So I usually enjoy some winter drawing there.The canyon walls are so tall that I … Continue reading January in Long Canyon
I was wondering when I was ever going to finish this pastel as I tromped down the hillside to my magnificent view.There were mounds of sienna orange earth made by some small burrowing animals. I marveled at how bright they were against the soft pale peachy dun earth. When I started this drawing, it was just … Continue reading October Afternoon
Climbing up mountains with boxes of colors…(to be sung to the tune of “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on Kittens…”) We have been blessed in this part of the world with a gorgeous clear-skied crisp autumn. It seems more precious than usual with such weather chaos on the east coast. One of my very favorite … Continue reading My Favorite Thing
It feels so good to be walking on the rim of Dry Hollow with my easel and a backpack of pastels. I’ve allowed myself a new box of Nupastels in celebration. A fresh box is so mouth watering! It has been a long time since I’ve set my easel up as back problems have … Continue reading Dry Hollow
This was written in Aphrodite a few weeks ago when we were blessed with day after day of sunny weather and Sophy and I took a daily trip out to Long Canyon ito draw: The low winter light shows up such amazing detail on Long Canyon’s huge red walls. They don’t seem as flat and … Continue reading Long Canyon in Winter
Aphrodite is my 1984 Toyota Sunrader, a mini RV. She’s a longtime dream come true. For years I’ve wanted a mobile studio to draw in when it’s too cold,windy, or rainy to draw outside. I had imagined refitting a light weight stepvan, but had no luck purchasing one. Something would always go wrong for a … Continue reading Aphrodite
Mary Oliver starts one of her poems with “Every day I see or hear something that more or less Kills me with delight…” And happily I find that to be mostly true, but especially in monsoon season. Our summer monsoon season drives me blissfully crazy and I want to weep and moan with the beauty … Continue reading Monsoon Season
