26 August 2009

Where did your favorite picture go?


Here I went to the trouble of reducing nearly 70 images, thinking surely this page would open faster which it does NOT. I've taken the next logical step of limiting the posts to 25 and archiving the remainder. There are two more steps available if that doesn't work, one is the slide show option and the other, which I don't want to do because we'll lose the comments, is line everything up postage stamp size. You'd get to click on a postage stamp to see it bigger. There is even a third option, continue to limit the amount of posts until the page opens with a satisfactory speed.

Just want to let you know I am working on it.

Big, I mean the largest made, 140 lb, cold-pressed, tried and true stock from France is about to arrive so, heh, I'm thinking we'll need more room pretty soon. Awrite! Now if I could just have a word with
the brush manufacturers ... their global best does not meet artist standards. We do not want to pick off Sable fur from the paint area, please OR have a stray strand interfere with our intentions.

UPDATE: Okay, I've just chosen the third option. We're down to 15 posts for this page. It seems to work. Next job ahead is to add year created to all post labels. Sounds kinda obsessive doesn't it.

UPDATE 2: Adding pages so the images stay large. We'll see how it goes.

19 August 2009

the Watusis

August 16th, Sunday, 2009, was about as perfect a day as it gets, containing within a sunlit space in time the full range of emotions underscored with plenty of "We are on our own now" Polaroids. As a wrap from God's film crew, my friend the Radical Rascal, pulled over alongside Heaven and the Watusi Longhorn came rumbling up from the wash to greet us.






The Watusis 2007
24" x 18" watercolor on Arches

06 August 2009

Ears

Watercolor on Arches
12" x 16" | 09 . 2009



A few months ago, I dreamed I grew dog ears. When I woke up, I felt some bumps on my head. Within a few days they'd filled out nicely. It seemed perfectly natural, different, but fine. Same color as my hair, soft and rather fluffy.

05 July 2009

Late Day, Grey Sky


Watercolor on Arches
24" x 18" 2003

Years after the work, it occurs me this is exactly how it looks when the wind carries smoke from distant wildfires to the rest of the southwest. The sun shines through it, orange, and the cheat grass takes on a wierd brightness.

01 July 2009

The Boyfriend

Watercolor on Arches
12" x 12" 2005



He calls to me from outside my window. Summer or snow. Just to please him, I want to sprinkle entire bags of seed everywhere.

His subspecies has a lifespan of over 10 years, so I know its the same goodlooking guy every time.

30 June 2009

Hope and Trust

Hope and Trust

Watercolor on Arches
16" x 12" 2009



I did one similar to this in 2003. I think I might have torn it up. Lately, it seemed to want to exist. When that happens, what can you do?

Flickers and similar birds

25 June 2009

downsizing

Whenever I get the time, which could be tonight, it could be this weekend, I will reduce the image sizes in all the posts. The graphics have become too ungainly for dial-uppers to view. On dial-up myself, I know what I am seeing, an intolerably long wait, hawing and humming, thumb twiddling, etc. Its no big deal, all you have to do is click on the image and a bigger view will come to life.

This is an example of what to expect:



Macaroni Pond

Watercolor on Arches
14" x 20" 2007

Update: 08.08.09 reduction program complete. A Herculean effort.

19 June 2009

Mysterious Present of a Secret Past


Watercolor on Arches
12" x 9" 2006

Cowboy Nam Vet. Industrious and laid back in one breath. Shovel wind chimes.

Free Parking


Watercolor on Arches
16" x 12" 2007

I Survive Hawk and Feline, Coyote and Pig


Watercolor on Arches
24" x 18" 2006

Minibunny, land owner

18 June 2009

Spirits Upstairs


Watercolor on Arches
16" x 12" 2003

17 June 2009

Burning Tree Kitchen


Watercolor on Arches
16" x 12" 2004

Indian Wonder


Watercolor on Arches
16" x 12" 2003

15 June 2009

The Integration of the Plums

Watercolor on Arches
24" x 18" 2005

This just slid over here from the blog almost as if it was planned. It wasn't. But since its slovenly easy, I will do it again.

Jake, in context



Watercolor on Arches
20" x 14" 2007

Dog days over on the blog...
Blush carpet and puppies don't go together all that well.
Will put up a bigger one when I find it, sigh. I know its around, somewhere ...


Detail from Jake, in Context.

14 June 2009

Sheep's Cathedral


Watercolor on Arches
16" x 12" 2008

Glacial Erratics blown in from the tempest. When the ice melted, they were left behind, scattered solo or in cathedrals. They only appear permanent.

13 June 2009

A Season is a Work in Progress


Watercolor and gouache on Arches
16" x 12" 2009

11 June 2009

Crimescene of the Chukar Shooting

Watercolor on Arches
20" x 14" 2007

Placid is only in the eye of the beholder.