red paint studio in New Mexico — Painting
full moon and yippie coyote!
Sleeping with windows open most of the year has some drawbacks.. full moon brought coyotes out to hunt and yell...and I wonder what other creatures are awake and on alert. I'll see lots of little foot prints in the sand come morning. A decent rain fell a few nights ago..and the desert willow sends out some last flowers for the hummingbirds. Are they just being kind? the trees I mean..kindness if given will be reciprocated and surprisingly not always in the way you'd expect. In the studio I'm working on landscapes with mostly sky and color. I've never been fond...
My list of good things
I start lists everywhere I am..to do lists with columns of "house" "work" and "other". My " good things" list is mostly a morning vocation and exists fleetingly in my head..and then..is gone. Good things Roadrunner Hairy Woodpecker Two grown rabbits light rain fell in night and rain barrel is full again purple sage in bloom first Sandhill Cranes flying along the Rio Grande..migration has begun. fish painting done for a friend When I was a kid and my parents would start a yelling match that I could not bear to witness ..I learned that nature and art could take...
after the summer heat
let's get personal
The pantone color for 2017 is Greenery..I'd better get some green going!
In between planting raspberries, mending fences and sewing up girls tunics for a photo shoot...I paint and look in awe at the desert landscape that now is starting to inform my colors and textures. I squint and see landscapes and layers of plant life colors changing in a day from brown to sage green and the roadrunner up on the chimney yells down thru the flue .." hey ..hey..you live in New Mexico..get out there and see it!!...I will. Creative types find uneasy times unnerving and it can hinder work..makes us come out of the studio and say "Be kind..be...