Still Christmas shopping? This is one more idea for someone on your list who loves Mineral King.
Farewell Gap, 6×6″, oil on wrapped canvas, $50
More Mineral King for Christmas
You are probably thinking about Christmas shopping. If you are like me, the simpler the better. Not leaving home? The best way to shop! (I used catalogs for shopping long before they were considered normal.)
Here is an easy way to please someone on your list who loves Mineral King.
Honeymoon Cabin XI, 6×6″, oil on wrapped canvas, $50
Mineral King for Christmas
Friends who care enough to tell me the truth have suggested I be a bit more bold about the fact that I have original oil paintings for sale at ridiculously low prices. Okay. Here goes. Try not to be disgusted by my crass commercialism.
The Crowley Cabin, 6×6″, oil on wrapped canvas, $50, SOLD
Peculiar Sight in Mineral King
Trail Guy is not a peculiar sight in Mineral King. He is puzzling over a peculiar sight in this photo.
Words fail me.
Thanksgiving in Mineral King
Yup. We had cheese and crackers and apple and dark chocolate for Thanksgiving dinner. This was our view:
Is there snow in Mineral King?
Some in the shade and on the north facing slopes.
P.S. Michael smoked a turkey the next day. We had leftovers of almost all the good stuff except pumpkin pie. Feel free to send some over if you are tired of yours.
Mineral King in Fall, Part 5
Being Thankful for Fall in Mineral King
These leaves have been blown or rained or snowed off the trees for several weeks by now but I’m still coasting on the beauty from that weekend in mid October.
This is the Mineral King Road with its leaning juniper. The yellow is cottonwood leaves.
These are aspens with Sawtooth Peak.
This is the Monarch drainage with all its fall colors.
More Sawtooth with aspens.
And the East Fork of the Kaweah River along the Nature Trail in Mineral King in October.
Th-th-th-th-that’s all, folks.
Mineral King in Fall, Part 4
I wonder if I can keep going into December with this? Don’t tempt me – I might have to change my blog description from a California Artist to an Autumnal Photographer.
Mineral King Multi-colored Slope
(Do you know where this is?)
Farewell Gap with Yellow Foreground (my titles are wearing out!)
Red Firs and Yellow Aspens (no, they don’t look very red, but that is the name of these fir trees)
Along the Mineral King Road (No, I will not call it “Take Me Home, Country Roads”!)
Fall on the Nature Trail (but don’t hurt yourself!)
Sawtooth and the Monarch Drainage
To be continued next Friday, because Fridays are for Mineral King on this California artist’s blog!
Mineral King in Fall, Part 3
Since I took 273 photos of that weekend of Fall Color in Mineral King, I can keep going with this series for awhile. Tell me if you are sick of it! (or I can look at the visitation numbers to the blog and figure it out – I’m clever like that.)
Nature Trail Gold
Farewell Gap Golden View
Golden Slope from the Top of Endurance Grade
Sawtooth in Fall
Shameless self-promotion reminder: the photos are available for sale if you contact me at cabinart at cabinart dot net (in words so that the spammy folks don’t mess with my email). 5×7″$10, 8×10″$20
A Blogger, an Artist and a Business Person
That’s me – three-in-one, three for the price of one, me in triplicate, a human triptych.
Sometimes it is so fun just to show you what I am doing, to write, to be a goofball, to philosophize, and to ramble. Then, I remember that I am trying to earn a living here, and that perhaps I should tell you some of the products and services I offer.
I’ve said for years that I am a business woman and my product is art. That remains true, but now I am beginning to feel like a photographer who writes, or a writer who photographs and sells art on the side.
Easily confused, I guess. . .
Anyway, here is the list.
- Drawing lessons, both private and group
- Pencil drawings, both originals and reproductions
- Commissioned pencil drawings, mostly of homes and cabins
- Oil paintings
- Commissioned oil paintings
- Notecards
- Indoor murals
- Outdoor murals
There will be more, but you will have to attend one of the shows I will be participating in during November, or visit my studio on the first Saturday of December.
Cowboy Bert and Trail Guy aren’t confused about their careers. They are just enjoying a nice walk on a beautiful fall day in Mineral King.
Sawtooth on a Cupboard Door?
Usually at a garage sale I am overtaken by the desire to go home, fill a box with stuff, and bring it back, sneak it onto a table, and tiptoe away. Stuff stresses me out. Too much stuff makes me twitch, mumble to myself, and randomly toss objects into the trash or a give-away barrel.
There might be a mental disorder that is the opposite of Hoarding. I might have it.
HEY! I THOUGHT THIS BLOG WAS ABOUT ART!
I’m getting there; keep your shirt on.
I found a cupboard door at a garage sale. It was all alone, no cupboard, no twin, no handle. It suddenly looked like a canvas that wanted paint.
So, I bought it and painted it. Stuff with a clear use is exempt from my Too-Much-Stuff-Problem.
Sawtooth is one of the prominent landmark peaks of Mineral King, visible from Visalia. (I prefer to look at it, hike beneath it, photograph, paint and draw it rather than climb it or be flown off of it.)
Sawtooth on cupboard door, approximately 9×21″, oil, sold
It sold to a visitor to my studio on First Saturday Three Rivers while it was wet. As long as it was signed, she was happy. And if the customer is happy, I am happy.