Eagle Hay

I keep forgetting to sign these before I photograph them, so this is a reminder that all images are copyrighted. I also keep forgetting which photographic set-up ends up with the best reproduction of the painting. I try a bunch of camera settings and lightings and pick the best shot, but I have no idea if there is one consistent set-up that I end up using. I guess that's why I'm not a photographer.

This painting gave me the same hard time as the last one, the one of Glenn's Ferry. In both I worked from the top down and intended to leave the foreground loose, but it just didn't look right. So I kept adding detail to the foreground until I liked it. It came out nice, just not as I had originally envisioned. Now I am on to fall leaves. I have another month or two to go out and take pictures of snow, but I am not painting any snow until the weather warms up.

The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho has a show with entries due in May called "Idaho Paints Idaho" for artists living in Idaho and painting Idaho. It is going to be super fun to have lots of work to chose from to enter. So far I like Glenn's Ferry the best. I could paint it bigger for the show, but I am really liking the smaller size that I can almost do in a day. Actually, I could finish it in a day if I could sit still for 8 hours.

It's funny that although I am not working very many hours, the idea of starting work tomorrow made me feel obligated to treat the weekend like a weekend and relax today. We did get some excitement down the street, 7 police cars, an ambulance, and a fire truck. The ambulance was not in any hurry, so maybe someone was dead. The police put up yellow tape around the front of the house and they hung around, and I mean hung around, for several hours, but I don't know the story, yet. I will have to ask one of my neighbors this week. I would have gone out and asked one of the police officers, they did not look busy, but I was on the phone.

The gas bill was higher for last month, $71. The last one was $58. I doesn't seem like it was colder, but I used more gas. Maybe it's those long showers. It is really hard to get out of the shower in the morning.