Category: Painted Hills

  • Dateline: Mitchell, Oregon, Sept. 15, Day 10

    I am aweary this evening. But I tromped again today to the back of the outback and did another medium sized painting (18 x 24).  I also worked some more on yesterday’s painting from that same spot. So here is the photo of the space I concentrated on today: And here’s the 18 x 24″…

  • Dateline: Mitchell, Oregon, Day 6, Sept 11, 2011

    Today Jer went to Paulina, Post, and Prineville, where he got milk and cereal and gas. I stayed at Hollyhock Cottage and worked on the three partly finished paintings. Here are the paintings, in the order of today’s workings: JOU, Basalt Formations at Picture Gorge, Sept 2011, 30 x 40″, oil on canvas JOU, The…

  • Dateline: Mitchell, OR, Picturing Picture Gorge, Sept 9, Day 4

    After I posted yesterday’s journal, I decided to work more on the paintings I had started earlier in the day. During the morning session, in addition to working further on the long narrow 12 x 24″ piece, I had hurriedly used up the paints on my palette  as Jer hiked up the trail toward me.…

  • Dateline: Mitchell Oregon, Sept. 7, Day 2

    The Painted Hills, 10 miles from Mitchell, Oregon, are basically unpaintable — or perhaps they have painted themselves so well, it’s foolish to emulate. I did produce a series trying to show the power that they embody (shown in this post on paintings from the John Day Fossil Beds), but I had to lean out…