2013

• Hail, Hail, Boise Blue!

  March 28, 2013

  Here’s my painting for the Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance’s Local Color show in celebration of Boise’s 150th birthday. This is based on Boise Blue — an art supply store that I used to love to visit. It closed about three years ago. I have fond memories of all the great art stuff they had, their…

  

• New Year’s Resolution: learn GIMP

  February 23, 2013

  Yeah, I know there might be better resolutions to choose from, but this is what I came up with. GIMP is a freeware photo manipulation tool (like Photoshop) that has a wonderful user community of contributors like this one. It’s kind of a complicated interface and since I hate reading help files and user manuals, it’s…

  

• First snow fall and first painting of the year

  January 7, 2013

   

  

• The Christmas card process

  January 7, 2013

  The Drawing The Painting on the Block The Carving The Printed Card