amarillo

Amarillo. A flash of congestion seen from the high speed highway; chain hotels, chain restaurants.

Palo Duro creek runs quiet in Canyon, ten miles south, where Panhandle Plains museum, located at Panhandle Plains A&M university, provided refuge from the morning fog.

We drove an hour (Texas speeds) to see Caprock Canyon State Park and Palo Duro canyon. Barely escaped Palo duro gift shop, as I was checking email in the toilet at closing time.

Looks like the new big foot sculpture will sell. Will post a pic when I am able.

Tomorrow - hot foot for Santa fe.

sun and clouds

This is a sunny Arizona morning in the summer of 1984;

a farm boy headed to California.

Healy Siding. Healy, AK.

Another watercolor landscape.  It is a rainy day in 2014.  The power plant (using local coal), the airport, and the town are located downstream of Denali National Park.  Raft trips end their run across the spur road from the Alaska Railroad siding here.  Observation cars are parked in the yard.

This is SE Alaska. Oil painting on board.  I have darkened the browns and over painted with clear medium since this image was taken.  

end of the year

It is here.  The end of the year.  Just a few deliveries to be made. One more Saturday afternoon at the Nest, Tulsa, with a few items set out for sale.  The kiln is cooling down from its last firing of 2014. Time to count everything. Inventory.

This drawing is a couple weeks old.  Hannah paints tiles for me in the studio.  She is young and busy with jobs and friends, and has been painting tiles off and on for quite a while.

This sculpture, currently in the kiln, is the first 'big foot' sculpture I've done in a couple of years.  She is being fired with underglaze painting, bearing a pear on the platter.  She will most likely be finished with oil colors to add brightness to her shoes. 

doggerel for the downpour

Though rain is a pain
I sell pots for gain.
So come to my studio,
and get in the moodio.

Once again I've called in a storm with my open studio event.  This time rain is coming in on the full moon.  Should be wet on friday morning. perhaps my old tent will finally meet its waterloo.

I've chosen to display an oklahoma landscape, 9" x 12", oil on board, from the spring of this year. I added a coat of clear medium on weds morning to give a finished look. My oklahoma scenes are my most popular topic here in the land of milk and honey.  I often wonder while driving west on Hwy 412 what it must have been like before the aquifer was drained below the surface.

Sold 6/20/2015 to Louise, who travels through southern oklahoma on her way to vacation at Caddo Lake on the borders of Texas and Louisiana.