Category: Painting on the Road

  • Petrified Forest Residency: Travel, Sept 19

    Caldwell, Idaho: too tired, too rainy, too much road, too tacky the surrounds, to do any painting outside tonight. I did drag out my colored pencils and sketch pad and ended up doing a pseudo-watercolor (pseudo because it was sketched and then scratched in with watercolor pencils and brushed over). I wish this piece were…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 22, March 09, 2009

    As usual, I spent the day at the Red Barn. Carrie Radomski showed up at 4:30 pm. She’s one  of the new owners of the Lost River Trading Co; George is the other half. And they’ve changed the name legally to the Beatty Mercantile, which is what we want to call it anyway. She and…

  • Goldwell Open Air Museum: diary of a residency

    Day 1, February 16, 2009 We arrived in Beatty, Nevada, 100 miles north of Las Vegas, on Sunday, February 15th. We stayed at the Phoenix Inn,  currently under renovation by a friend of Charles and Suzanne Hackett-Morgan, who are the founders, chief board members, and construction/clean-up crew of the Goldwell Open Air Museum. The Phoenix…