Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “musings”
To paint or not to paint. That was the question I was faced with this weekend sitting in a cascade of Aspen leaves falling around me. Have you been out to see the colors yet? WOW! Well, I’ll say they were WOW in certain places. Some places were more like blah. For those of you who live in Western Colorado, where …
Learn to Paint the Unexpected- Artist Daily blog on Joseph Alleman. I first saw Joseph’s work in Jackson, Wy at the Astoria Gallery several years ago. He does some great watercolors. I’m headed up that way in the morning and you can bet I’ll stop by and observe his work first hand again. I’ll be posting the week long stay in Jackson for …
Guess I should have paid closer attention to the weather forecast last weekend. It would’ve been worth actually looking at it I suppose. I recall something about a chance of rain but I interpreted it as to say a chance of scattered showers, or something to that effect. As it turned out it was a rather unexpected weather event. I …
In the eighteen hundreds, Dr. Sylvester Richardson and his bride settled in an area near Moab, Utah. This homestead flat is called the Richardson Amphitheater and it’s where I spent last weekend painting the Utah red rock landscape and enjoying life. To get there, go west on I-70 and take the Cisco exit to Moab, Hwy 128, and follow along the …
With Spring breaking out all over, our attention has turned to sprucing up the yard a bit. We burned a couple of weeks ago and yesterday I began to spray the weeds which can easily, and usually do, get out of control quicker than I have time to take care of them. While cleaning things up, Kathy and I commented …
Well it’s been sometime since I felt wooed by my Mistress of the North. Thinking back over the last couple of months I guess it’s because I’ve had some other things on my mind. In other words, I’ve been preoccupied you might say. This isn’t to say that I completely shut her out by any means, but I will admit …
Well, it’s that time of year again. Happy New Year! Time for everybody to renew their membership to the gym, forget the past and move into the future. Have you been thinking about your New Year resolutions? Yah, me neither. I’ve tried that and it only works for a couple of weeks or days at best. Sometimes just hours. Why …
Ho, ho, ho, and a Merry Christmas to all! Yes, I’m feeling festive. I’ve got all my work caught up so you good folks have something to open under your tree. What a relief! It’s over. Now it’s time to relax a bit and enjoy the season. I know I have been neglectful in my duties here but I’ve been …
When wielded with a deft finesse, either the rod or the brush can elicit magical results. One won’t always catch a fish with the rod and one won’t always make a painting with the brush, but it’s an art to just be able to make the cast or make the stroke. The way the line flows off of the end …
“Using watercolors for their transparency and loose suggestive qualities or oil paints for their opacity, texture and quality of brush stroke, I paint the people, places and things of small town, rural America. From the towering peaks of the Rocky Mountains, to the towering grain silos of Kansas or the small adobe casas of New Mexico, to the fishing …