Category: Small Town Scenes

  • 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…

  • No Desert: Day 25, Nov 25, 2009

    No desert painting today. I stayed in Beatty, fooled around  at the House this morning, and painted in town this afternoon. I haven’t any photos of the paintings, but I must report that it was something like 70 degrees and (what else) sunny, today. Even the wind cooperated (which means the sun and wind allowed…

  • Nada: Day 18, Nov 18, 2009

    I took the day off. Spent all morning futzing around on the computer, answering emails, cleaning up files, labeling images. And the afternoon, after the furnace guy left telling us not to burn the house down (and not fixing the furnace neither), I went off to the town library, a hexagonally shaped creature, and painted…

  • 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…