Category: Desert Painting

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 7, October 2, 2010

    The good news is that I painted the rusting car, which sits at the Route 66 stopping point on the PF drive, and it was fun. The other good news is that we had a desert thunderstorm all around us tonight and saw gorgeous clouds, a tad of rain, and smelt the sage as it…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 6, October 1, 2010

    Petrified Forest, October 1, 2010 Off we went, late this morning – 6:30 rather than 6 AM. The ranger had already opened the gates and moved on. Some mornings we have arrived before he did (we have a key to open the gates ourselves). Other mornings we arrived just as he did, and he got…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 5, September 30, 2010

    Sept 30, 2010 6 AM: This (early) morning we went to southern entrance of park, where a stabilized  petrified-wood building, dated around 1250 AD, is located. It’s about a mile up an easy walking trail and represents something of the Puebloan culture that inhabited this area. Officially called Agate House, the structure has been stabilized…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 4, September 29, 2010

    Petrified Forest, Sept 29, 2010 I painted at Tawa Point, near the apartment this morning, again rising at 5:30 to catch the early sun and avoid the later heat.  Jer has access to a good internet connection, so he returned to the Park compound to work while I painted. From Tawa Point, across a deep…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 3, September 28, 2010

    Petrified Forest: Day 3, Sept 28, 2010 6 AM: I did my early morning painting at Blue Mesa, a 3 mile loop road  in the center of the park with a short hiking trail attached. Jer walked the whole trail. I walked a short way, until I spied a hoodoo, one of those rock formations…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 2, September 27, 2010

    I will upload this morning’s thoughts and, with luck, a painting. And with more luck, the internet connection will allow me to upload two paintings, which is how many I did today. Morning Moans: Jer and I woke at 5:50 and were at Tiponi Point by 6:08. The gate just beyond the pullout was closed,…

  • Petrified Forest Residency: Day 1, September 26, 2010

    The terror I felt last night was mostly for naught – perhaps just a way of ensuring that I don’t get too uppity. However, the entrance to the Park was as intimidating this morning as it was last evening – or perhaps more so in the blank light of day, with the inevitable commercial nonsense…

  • Petrified Forest Residency: About to Begin

    We are in Holbrook, Arizona. No art will be displayed in this post. No art has been produced for this post, nor for any other in recent days, although we’ve passed through seriously artistic scenery. Which might be the problem, along with the problem of just driving and driving and driving and eating road food…

  • The Petrified Forest: Residency, Coming and Going

    This set of posts will be a journal of  my residency at the Petrified Forest, within the Painted Desert, in northeastern Arizona. I am scheduled to be at the Petrified Forest (east and south of the Grand Canyon) Sept. 26 through Oct 9, 2010, but as usual, I have further plans both coming and going.…

  • Bits and Bytes: Day 33, Dec. 3, 09

    Yesterday, I took the day off and was playing at painting the Beatty Community Center when the silver Honda pulled up with David Lancaster and all his photo equipment. So I got to exploit the photographer. Actually he had set up and done some phtography before he found me, but at the Barn, after some…