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  • Diary of a Residency, Day 34 & 35

    I didn’t do any journal entries yesterday; I didn’t do any art yesterday. It was a Day Off.  While we did go to Marta Beckett’s Sitting Performance at the Amargosa Opera House last evening, I didn’t even feel as if we were doing any serious touristing — neither investigating nor dreaming about painting. It was…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 32, March 19, 2009

    A long day. I’m not even going to show any pictures. I really worked the first big canvas (Golden Canyon Revisited) and thought it was finished, until Jer showed up and pointed out a flaw that Must Be Fixed. And it isn’t clear exactly what will fix it. So tomorrow, instead of concentrating solely on…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 30, March 17, 2009

    Today was my birthday. Spent mostly at the Red Barn, churning paint. I got started a bit late, but had no interruptions. Not even Betty and Fred stopped by, and the tourists seemed uninterested. Or maybe I was too far back in the barn to be seen — I worked mostly on the Back Wall…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 29, March 16, 2009

    Each of these days is intense, long, hard, and yet they go fast. I get home so wiped I can scarcely eat (but of course, I do anyway.) These blog entries tend to be hard to do, but it’s the only way I can differentiate one day from another. So today, first Jer took me…

  • Diary of a residency, Day 28, March 15, 2009

    The Ides of March — and a Sunday, to boot. I found the Car Guys on NPR today and got to giggle at the Latin quiz and listen to Garrison’s joke show. I hadn’t found NPR until today so it was a nice change. The classical music is good but too much gets monotonous. Two…

  • Diary of a Residency, day 26, March 13, 2009

    Friday the 13th. A nice easy slow day. After the exhaustion of Death Valley yesterday, I decided today not to attempt to deal with the wind and sun and carting the materials and setting up in the midst of sand fleas and kibitzers: I stayed inside the Red Barn, with the big doors wide open…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 25, March 12, 2009

    We went a-touring in Death Valley today. I took something like 120 photos, all of which fail to capture the place. But of course. And I am now pondering a conundrum about my own landscape work. I haven’t quite enough distance to say for certain (speaking of landscape) but it seems to me that my…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 21, March 8.2009

    I’m tired; perhaps a quick recap will do it. Nice walk on the desert this morning, although I didn’t find the cemetery. Richard Stephens showed up with his friends; I almost went with them back to the cemetery, but tea and comfort inside the Barn called. Which was just as well, as a couple from…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 12, February 27, 2009

    The universe decided I had had enough pleasure, and today it whapped me with strong colds winds from the northeast.  And the sun was covered with clouds — not quite hidden, but not maintaining its desert reputation as a bringer of warmth, either. I was working on a large board (18 x 36), close to…

  • Diary of a Residency, Day 11, February 26, 2009

    I am typing this on my new laptop, which is beautiful and ofttimes baffling. I’ve never used the  Microsoft Vista before and this is a 64 bit Vista Premium, wrenched out of Amazon with only two separate and carefully keyed in orders,  two emails (one of which reassured Amazon that I thought the problem had…