Remoteness & new paintings
Posted on Mar 25, 2007
Another story about just how remote we are. I can't pick up a public radio station. I have to stream NPR on Mac. Mac seems to increase in importance every day--he's truly THE link to the outside world!OK, I'm through with painting Oakland. I'm calling Gateway to Dogtown finished and I'm abandoning the freeway painting altogether. I've been stalling around all week avoiding working on them and I don't have the time to waste. Besides, I think they've been dry too long for new paint to stick. I'm drawing the new compositions on canvases right now--one is a scene similar to Painted Desert, with the landscape being that right on the ridge over by Cordova. The other is a scene right out in the back yard--the sun going down behind the coyote fence and glowing on the house Therese's cousin is building back there. Nice glow-y clouds in the sky.
I've got a couple small canvases ready and one additional normal-sized one, though I used the stretcher bar my husband was saving for himself so I feel a little guilty about claiming that one. I don't have anything planned for it but if I come up with something that is the right size for it....I don't think he'd be too upset ;-) He's sweet like that.
All our snow is gone!! Not a scrap left. If I hadn't gotten up early that day I'd swear it never happened. It's a pretty spring day out, though chilly in here. I've rolled the easel over by the fireplace to work.
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