Wrist is OK, & Sunny Saturday

The wrist seems like it will be OK. We bandaged it up and wrapped the ace bandage around it (from my arm ;-)). I feared we'd have to drive him in for stitches but the cut was not that deep and the bleeding stopped in a reasonable amount of time. He can pull the clutch on his motorcycle! Still, this points out to us that we are far from having adequate first aid supplies up here, a condition that will be remedied on my next journey down the mountain.

In other news I have embarked on painting a mural to hang on the outside, roadside wall of the adobe. Two other artists up here put paintings out on easels during the day…a good idea, eye catching and it shows the gallery visitors just what kind of work you do. I contemplated a number of ways to approach this (I just don’t have extra easels) and decided to take Cerro Pedernal (just the right proportions) and blow it up on a banner.
I have finished constructing the canvas (had to cut & sew it back together) and two coats of gesso. It is a little over three feet tall by 15 feet wide. Yes, fifteen. Today I’ll make a grid map of the smaller painting and transpose onto the mural canvas. This should be fun! I love to paint big.

Today is bright and sunny and summer-like. Yesterday there was thunder, hail, rain and two tornado warnings as well as flash-flood warnings. I’ve become quite familiar with the emergency warning signal on the radio.

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One Tough Cookie (2007-05-26)
glad everything is ok

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