Category: Red Barn

  • PSF Residency: Post #5

    It’s Wednesday evening (Feb 1, 2012), and today I drew for the first time inside the warehouse at Portland Store Fixtures. It was good. Comfy quarters (warmth, light, pleasant music), the staff was altogether pleasant, and I had a drawing companion, comrade Jane, to buck me up and keep me from feeling too self-conscious. We…

  • 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…

  • “Finished” Done, Complete, Replete, the End: Nov 30, 2009

    I have declared the big linen panorama “finished.” Note the quotes. I almost never finish a work until it has sat and thought for a while. And until I have sat and looked for a while. However, we will hold an Open Studio next Saturday, pack up the Studio Sunday, pack up the house after…

  • Unoriented: Day 29, Nov. 29, 2009

    I told Jer this morning that I should be able to “finish” these canvases in another two days. Tonight I’m not so sure. But I’m not going to show any more photos of them until I’m fairly confident that I’ve done as much as I can see to do. The panorama set does have a…

  • It Was A Dark and Stormy Day: Day 28, Nov 28, 2009

    Well, it wasn’t exactly dark — just amazingly, wondrously, hideously, wildly stormy. I’d add more adjectives, but Jer won’t let me. It was also teeth chattering cold, but I couldn’t resist having the big barn doors open to watch the sky and desert as the storms came and went. I was at the Barn at…

  • Short Day with Evaluation: Day 24, Nov. 24, 2009

    I got up slowly and moved slowly and sipped my coffee slowly, and did desultory emails but finally, slowly, went off to the studio about 10:30 AM. I thought, since it was already too late to do anything serious, that I would try setting up the internet connection at the Red Barn. Jer and I…

  • Another Direction: Day 23, Nov. 23, 2009

    Where do I start? One day is much like another, only different, and each day seems to bring new revelations. At least each does when I’m paying attention. This morning, I worked over that central panel, again. I realized that, as it was painted, it looked as if a gap existed between the mountains —…

  • Working the Center: Day 22, Nov 22, 2009

    A shortish day today. Lots of visitors, including old friends Fred and Betty, from last February, when they kept an eye on me from  Rhyolite, where they were caretakers. It was good to see them again; we spent a  couple hours just catching up. It was Fred and Betty with whom we traveled down Titus…

  • Sometimes a Great Notion: Day 21, Nov. 21, 2009

    This was a hard-working day at the Studio. I didn’t mean it to be — I just kept seeing  More To Be Done. I worked the center panels, particularly the central one, very hard today, using Liquin as if it were water. I also got to use my spatula-like tool, of which I’m very fond,…

  • Half Way There: Day 20, Nov 20, 2009

    And it feels just fine. I had a short day, thinking I might catch a bit of plein air work, but by the time Jer showed up, it was blowing too hard. So, wind wimp that I am, I came back to Beatty and played with a painting in the foyer of the house (the…