If you are of age, you probably remember Buck from the TV series Gunsmoke. He was Matt Dillon’s deputy, Newly O’Brien. The only reason I bring this up is that through local resident Judd Redfield, I learned that Buck is quite an accomplished watercolor artist. How Judd knows Buck is fodder for another story and a very interesting one but …
Simpson Gallery, Studio and Frame Shop hours
Because of the economic slow down I have been essentially running the shop by myself for the last two years with a little part time help as needed from time to time. Keeping regular hours of operation six days a week is getting harder to do. As the need has arisen to go do errands, I have closed for an hour or two or have …
Spring in the Red Rock Country
Spring on the Western Slope is an especially inviting time of year. Coming out of winter, most of us welcome these teasingly warmer days. Take this past Sunday for instance. We had been watching the weather forecast to see if the nice warm days we were having would make it to the weekend and we were nicely rewarded. My wife …
Catching Up
Yes, it has been a while hasn’t it? Been busy with framing for the most part but have managed to get a few paintings done. I’ve really been enjoying doing portraits. I used to do a lot of figure work to include portraits years ago but for some reason strayed away from it. Of course all of the portrait work was commissioned …
Photographing Paintings
Photographing paintings to day. A couple of fly fishing oils and a couple of drawings from a life drawing session the other night. I have a set up that is dedicated to photographing art so it is real convenient…just a matter of doing it. I like to wait until I have seveeral to do and that way it is a little …
Travel Log Update
As you know if you’ve been following me for very long, I like to get out and about, traveling hither and yon as they say. I keep it somewhat close to home, two or three days out a week at the most. I’ve got too much to do to be gone for very long. What is particularly fun is to …
Albert Handell
Spent a wonderful day with Albert Handell on Saturday. I took my wife Kathy to Santa Fe for the New Year weekend and I arranged a meeting for her with Albert. She is a fan of his and wanted to get one of his books. I met Albert several years ago at the Telluride Plein Air Festival in Telluride, Colorado. …
Looking Ahead
Here it is, New Years Eve morning. A good time to look at the new year that will be here in less than 24 hrs. I’m not going to look back however. 2009 wasn’t much to look at. I’ve got a few things on the books for the coming year that I will share with you so you can know …
The Navajo Nation
We traveled across the Navajo Reservation on the way down to Tucson for the opening of the Mountain Oyster Club Art Show I mentioned last week. I’ve traveled across the rez numerous times. In the late 1980’s when I was showing at the Grand Canyon and other venues in Arizona, Highway 160 became all too familiar. Not much has changed …
As I See It…
Such a title as “As I See It…” generally suggests that a personal opinion is coming. Don’t worry. You know that I don’t do that here. Well…OK, sometimes (as in often) I do but this time I’m referring to something different. I often make much to do about the importance of “seeing”. I’ve mentioned it here before. For an artist, …