To this day I wince to recall it. My youngest child saved $2000 and bought a brand new Honda Scooter. Within months it was stolen from the carport of her apartment. Neither she nor I considered how easily a thief might heft and steal away the machine or that it would happen. Easy or hard,...
In the old days they called them ‘studies’. To build a painting composition you’d sketch it out and then start gathering the visual data by visiting the setting if that made sense, posing models and doing sketches of them, and scrounging up wardrobe. Then you’d do color studies or whatever other dry run made sense...
Two weeks without a major mechanical issue was the goal and Red Pea made it. Along the way were four issues, none major. For example, the nose badge went missing. It hadn’t gone far though. The mount studs were both missing. I devised a replacement strategy so that instead of male threaded studs, I have...
Having recently acquired a propane barbeque, I made a hose to allow the propane tank to feed the gas lines for $39.00 It also came with two digital thermometer forks. How might they compare to the one I have in my kitchen drawer? I plunged them together into warm soup: 143, 145, and 139.6 degrees...
A local lake has meadows above the trail that surrounds it that get filled with the blue blossoms of Lily flowers each April. Kayla is my model in a merge of my three favorite painting subjects. So the composition is Girl plus Land Rover plus local landscape. I had been vexed over the fact that...
