"Rapids at Salmon La Sac", 8 x 10", Oil, 2009
High Country Artists Plein Air Competition, August 2009, Ambiance of Kittitas County Award (Best of Show).
I love it when the painting paints itself and wins an award. I think for half an hour that I can die happy. Then I become anxious--because past performance may not be indicative of future results. I don’t want to have to live up to that painting. I’d rather have the good painting just around the next bend. So then I have to reorient myself to my work ethic. Go back and start practicing scales again. Think about what I need to learn-- remember what Rilke said: “If the Angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner.”
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"Mahjong Player", Oil, 14" x 11", 2009.
This fellow took time out from the mahjong game in the courtyard of the guest house in Yu Lu Village, Yunnan Province, China.
In March of 2009 I traveled to some of the ethnic minority regions of Yunnan Province in western China with two painter friends. I've compiled some photos of part of the trip, particularly of the remote Tibetan area near Deqin in the Three Parallel Rivers area of China.
