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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 …
If you have followed me for very long, you know I paint a lot. As a consequence, I have a lot of paintings in inventory. From time to time I offer some of my art on ebay. This overload of smaller watercolor and oil paintings, some are plein air sketches and others are just studio ideas I’ve worekd up. I will be posting …
Well, here I am, snowed in at a KOA in Cedar City, Utah. I shoveled a foot or more away from my doorstep this morning. The snow I have here and the snow at home in Montrose is what’s keeping me from coming home. I’m pulling our new travel trailer and just don’t want to deal with the snowy roads, etc. …
A short video of the 30th Annual Gilder’s Conclave held in Bakersfield, CA. A group of gilders who are carrying on this craft of gilding in reverse on glass. The first Conclave was held by Rick Glawson in his studio/shop in Willmington, CA. The Conclave is held in honor o Rick and in the tradition of the masters of the …
I’ve spent the last to weeks or so making over the Simpson Gallery. Originally the front of the building was a gallery space with the framing samples and design counter in the middle of the building and the production area for framing in the back. In a weak moment I moved the design counters for framing up front along with …
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 …
Just finished up a couple of little 6×8 oil paintings from the Long Ride North this summer. The two latest additions to the collection are one of the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska and the other is from Haines Junction, Yukon. The Matanuska Glacier is in Alaska on the Glenn Highway about 60 miles or so Northeast of Palmer, Alaska which is …
I finally have the photos and video all downloaded and organized from the Long Ride North. For all of you new commers, thanks for signing up by the way, my wife Kathy and I and her brother Tim and his wife, rode our Harleys to Alaska this summer. For some day by day blogs of the trip look over to …