After obsessing over the wildflowers on the hillside behind my house, I headed to the painting workshop to paint some of my own wildflowers.
But wait! There are other flowers in bloom in the yard, and they also deserve attention. I picked some Lemon Geranium to put in a vase near my work station, because it keeps mosquitos away. (in theory)
Wait! I can’t work on that piece today. It doesn’t have the tight deadline that the Redbud Festival is pressurizing me with. IT IS TOMORROW, 10-5 at the Three Rivers Memorial Building and SUNDAY, 10-4.
Get to work, Central California artist! Chopchop.
I love this view of Franklin Creek, at the upper crossing, below the dam.
Mineral King Wildflowers, 6×18″, oil on wrapped canvas, $165 (plus that pesky California sales tax).
Then I finished this 6×6″ poppy.
I have more finished little paintings for the Redbud Festival but you might have to go to the show to see them.
Maybe I’ll show you those other flowers in the yard on Monday’s post. Or maybe I will tell you that I sold everything at the Redbud Festival. Or maybe nothing will have sold and I will invite you to a bonfire.
JUST KIDDING!
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I think after the Redbud Festival you need to set aside your brushes and pick up your knitting needles, just for a change in . . . in . . . I forgot what you call the art materials you work with? Anyway, do you have any pregnant friends who will be needing a baby blanket?
Sharon, I have a baby blanket on one set of needles for a good friend’s 4th grandchild, a sweater on another set of needles for me in the color of those dutch iris that I love so much, and on a 3rd set of needles is a pair of socks for me in my favorite color, teal. Knitting can always be squeezed into the cracks of my life.
You’re a better man than . . . wait, that’s not right! I’m a one-project-at-a-time crocheter. Must be the “J” in me. Start a project, finish a project, move on to the next project.
I’m almost done with a baby blanket done with variegated yarn in pink, green, and white, then back to my go-to project of blankets for Project Linus (www.projectlinus.org).
Better? Nah. Just like to have variety in my knitting life. if we were to rank ourselves on a scale of “Giving Back” (Stupid stupid – I didn’t take anything that needs to be returned!), you would win because of Project Linus.
Thank you, that’s very kind of you. It’s more like, “not too many ladies of my age are having babies so the demand for my baby blankets are on the low side.” And fortunately, a local craft store is a drop-off locations for the local PL chapter, so all I have to pay for is yarn (which is tax-deductible), and my time (which, alas, is not tax-deductible).
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