Tag: Amargosa Valley

  • 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…

  • 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 —…

  • It’s Raining!: Day 12, Nov.12, 2009

    I didn’t know what the sound was, except that it was extremely strange. The Red Barn, with its tin roof and its kangaroo rat and its tarantula and occasional bird often harbors strange sounds. But this, well, this, this sounded like rain. Pitter patter rain, on a tin roof. And so it was. Earlier in…

  • Take Brush, Put to Canvas: Day 4, Nov. 4, 2009

    I went altogether too long without painting. Sketching doesn’t substitute. Thinking isn’t adequate. Looking at scenery only makes one’s fingers twitch. So today I painted. Not well, not finished, but I got that brush in hand: First I did an acrylic-painted sketch on some sketching paper I taped together (Note to self — there is…