Tag: landscape views

  • Space and Place, the Tangle and the Wonkiness

    To continue my thoughts on space and place: I have been working on textiles, which means 10% design and 90% execution. Execution always gives me lots of time to think. So I am pondering, still, on my own art making — what I make, and why it’s not necessarily what I generally like in art.…

  • SE Area Art Walk: Nye Beach (1) and A VW on Salmon St

    As I have mentioned, I’m participating in the Southeast Area Art Walk, 10 –5, March 5 and 6. So I’m gathering paintings and textile wall hangings, old and new, to show and perhaps sell, or at least to tell tales about. Here’s an old oil painting, from 2008, of which I am still very fond:…

  • Petrified Forest, Relationships Grouped: “Natural Monuments”

    As I have been stumbling to explain, my plein air experience is infinitely larger, more amazing and important, than my plein air paintings. It’s inevitable, the smells, the sights, the history, the culture, geology, geography, the wind and sun and sky — only tiny bits of this can be encompassed in any single painting. And…

  • Petrified Forest Residency: A concluding remark or two, in Context

    I have been shilly-shallying about writing this conclusion for close to a month now. And it’s not because I don’t know what I want to say. I think it’s because I can summarize or I can expostulate, and while the first is almost too brief, the latter is too turgid. So here are some silly…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day Whatever, Oct. 14, 2010

    I have lost track of time. A bit of disorientation in space as well, but  mostly of time. After returning from the Lightning Field, I had to sleep a lot, and I had to re-orient my head to painting. We found a hardworking crew, putting up a fence around our back “patio” space. They start…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 11, Oct 6, 2010

    I have no painting to show today, what with rain, hail, and demos at the Painted Desert Inn. Not to mention tourists freaked out by flooding and wild weather at the Grand Canyon and tornadoes at Flagstaff.  All in all, I was grateful for my “studio” in the enclosed and roofed upper patio space at…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 10, Oct. 5, 2010

    After all that fussing about climbing down the wilderness trail, we woke up to rain. Not much, but a very cloudy sky and big fat drops. No wilderness trail hiking/painting for this cautious (or lazy) couple. We rescued paintings from the back patio, where we thought they were safe under shelter (not quite), did lots…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 6, October 1, 2010

    Petrified Forest, October 1, 2010 Off we went, late this morning – 6:30 rather than 6 AM. The ranger had already opened the gates and moved on. Some mornings we have arrived before he did (we have a key to open the gates ourselves). Other mornings we arrived just as he did, and he got…

  • Petrified Forest Residency, Day 5, September 30, 2010

    Sept 30, 2010 6 AM: This (early) morning we went to southern entrance of park, where a stabilized  petrified-wood building, dated around 1250 AD, is located. It’s about a mile up an easy walking trail and represents something of the Puebloan culture that inhabited this area. Officially called Agate House, the structure has been stabilized…

  • Petrified Forest Residency: About to Begin

    We are in Holbrook, Arizona. No art will be displayed in this post. No art has been produced for this post, nor for any other in recent days, although we’ve passed through seriously artistic scenery. Which might be the problem, along with the problem of just driving and driving and driving and eating road food…