THE BLOG
Jumping onto the paper
I try not to sketch in church. I don’t bring my sketch book and brushes and pencils. I try to listen quietly. A kind lady will come up to me and hand me a piece of paper. A child will peak over the bench in front of me. A baby will smoosh his face against an arm. My hand starts to itch and my brain starts to compare angles. I grab a pen and the faces appear on my paper. I try not to sketch in church but here’s what happens when I do.
Fall Watercolor Class and Joining Local Colors
Come join us for another watercolor class at the Bountiful Davis Art Center. Classes will begin Wednesday morning, September 12th from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. The class will go for six weeks, September 12th through October 17th. I look forward to seeing old friends and meeting many new friends. Come join us for a morning of dipping brushes into paint. Go to www.bdac.org to sign up for the class.
I am joining the gallery, Local Colors located 1054 E. 2100 S., Salt Lake City, Utah (in the Sugarhouse Area right next to where Granite Furniture was located) www.localcolorsart.com There will be a Sugar House Art Walk on September 14th, starting at 6 p.m. and the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll September 21st at 6 p.m. I will be one of the featured artists so come either night and say hi, grab a piece of french bread and buy a card which will sign you up for the drawing for an art print or a little original watercolor. ( I haven’t decided which one yet.) Hope to see you there.
Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society
I recently received an email informing me that I have received the “highly coveted” NWS signature status. Wow! Exciting news. I will be heading to Los Angeles for the National Watercolor Society Show opening at the end of September.
This is a watercolor sketch that I painted Plein Air in Skagway. It had been raining for three weeks before we got there so the sunny skies were nice. You usually get to know someone when you sit out and paint. I met two young ladies who stopped to chat with me before they opened up the restaurant where they worked. It adds to the flavor of the painting to get to know the people who live there.
I put a bell on my back pack just in case we went hiking back in bear country. It worked great, a week in Alaska and I did not see a single bear. We waited 45 minutes to see a bear from a bear platform. Ten minutes after we left to catch the shuttle, my mother-in-law showed up on a bus, walked right down to the bear platform and saw a mother bear and her cub catch a salmon. Hmmmmmm.
How did that get there?
This is a page from my sketch book at the Denver Airport. I’m not sure how the bunny got through security and what he was doing at the airport?
The Low Light into the Harbor
At the Fairport Harbor on Lake Erie, this man talked about the light house and the light on shore. If you were out on the water in a storm or at night, you lined up the low light that was on the shore with the high light that was in the light house. This is the way you knew you were heading right into the harbor and wouldn’t crash. If for some reason the low light went out, you had no guidance into the harbor and could end up where you didn’t want to end up, as a captain of a ship.
It would be nice to have a light house and a low light when you sent out manuscripts or book dummies. You could see exactly where to send them so they would find a friendly shore. Here is the page from my sketch book. It is nice to sketch while someone is talking. You can get a feel for the whole person.
Wow Freddy! Look! It’s a very rare large eared Ituri Okapi.
Here is an observation from the San Diego Zoo.
