For a jigsaw puzzle of this winter’s cattail fluff, go HERE.
I Declare
Even though it needs many coats of polyurethane, I declare the table finished! Well, and then Megan has to finish the base… but my artwork and the painting/staining is complete. I painted some shading in this morning and left that to dry. With heaters going, the studio was plenty warm for paint to dry. A…
Treasure
You may be tiring of table updates, but that’s all I seem to be working on! Soon enough, calving season will begin, and you’ll have more ranch/cow photos, but for now, it’s me and that table (and you). I showed it to Brandon and Megan yesterday, and we changed a few things up. Unbelievably, I…
Beginning A New Year at the Ranch Video
My year started off with a bang when something exploded and burned my new wool sweatshirt. Vernon’s New Year’s birthday was followed by babysitting some of my grands where we always find adventure. We looked for two bulls in some big country and branded a few as well. A new hay feeder arrived and the…
Ledger Art Tale/Tail
Another Ledger Art Traditions class today! The assignment today was to depict an idea and try to tell it so your audience could understand it. My idea was “freedom” and I chose to show a horse breaking a halter and getting loose. This first one was supposed to be a loose sketch, just to get…
More Table
I’m pushing on trying to complete Megan’s table. I turned on my heaters and built a fire in the stove, then left to go do my dishes… hoping a little heat and some sunshine would make the studio much more comfortable. It certainly helped, and I spent a few hours listening to “The Greatest Treasure…
#TBT: “Happy Girl”, v.2.0
This was first published February 4, 2011. My help was requested this morning, so I found myself driving the tractor and even pitching a little hay. It was a VERY nice morning… in the 20’s… so that means 50 degrees warmer than the other day! Plus, driving the tractor also means *heater* and *radio*….
Wordless Wednesday: “Tabletop”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this tabletop, go HERE.
You Don’t Stop
A trip to town filled my day… Once again, I failed my “daily photographic journal”… but since the next week is supposed to be full of record cold and snowfall for many of us across this nation… I thought I’d pull out one of my favorite photos of Vernon, enjoying the life of a rancher….
Crafty
I tried to work more on Megan’s table today. I cranked up two little heaters and went to burning. After an hour of huddling in my studio at 25 degrees and a howling wind outside, I gave up. While my studio seems snug, it’s draftiness is quite apparent when the wind is blowing. I retreated…
Bulls
Whipping up a couple of pound cakes, an annual meeting (you know, it’s like we’re a business or something), and a long attempt at helping a friend with her printer/phone/wi-fi/internet… not a necessarily photogenic day. But there was this…
Ledger Art Class
It was all I wanted and more! Robert is a good teacher, leading us into the past and explaining the beginnings of ledger art, then sharing modern artists of the ledger art tradition. Before we knew it, we were working on our own artwork. Encouraging and positive, Robert led each of us on our own…