Archive for June, 2009

Marsh Wetland Landscape Daily Oil Painting

June 30th

“Autumn Marsh”

Oil on Raymar panel 12″ x 10″.
It’s not a summer landscape, but I’ve been wanting to paint this scene for a long tme and I finally found the time. The tall grasses in the wetland area near where I live turn brilliant shades of yellow and gold in the fall.Thanks for stopping by!
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Thai Food - original oil painting

June 28th

My all-time favorite food - Thai or Vietnamese. This 6 x 6″ oil painting on Gessobord was done from a tiny sketch I did at a Thai restaurant that I used to frequent. It’s closed now, so I’m looking for another good one. I’m desperate for some massaman curry!

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Original Oil Painting of Spokane Falls

June 25th

“Spokane Falls”
Oil on Canvas Panel
8″x10″
$80.00

This is the second painting that I did of this scene. I did another one from a more distant view, I liked it because it showed more of the river, but the composition wasn’t as interesting as I knew it could be. I cropped the image closer and it makes for […]

people are drawing cartoons of me now……

June 24th

thanks adrian!
adrian has written a riposte to my mission-shaped church article on fulcrum - he is also a cartoonist, in fact i think that a few other fulcrum team have been at the end of his brush, fab.
of course i disagree with him in his discussion about the place of the trinity in the mission […]

Pack for plein air oil painting

June 23rd

This article was first published in “Frequency Magazine” – September 2008.
Plein air painting (from the French “plein air” which means “in open air”) refers to works completed on location. Constable in England believed in the virtue of painting directly from nature. In France, Millet and Corot from the Barbizon school went in the countryside to […]

Community Supported Agriculture, Energy Independence and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Featured This Week On Sustainable Georgia

June 20th

Sustainable Georgia celebrates the Autumnal Equinox and bemoans gas lines this week in a broadcast-online pinata bursting with good stuff, including Josephine Bennett’s feature on Davis Farms, the Community Supported Agricultural(CSA) project in Roberta, Georgia. We talk about the indirect cost of oil (among other things) with Jay Hakes, Director of the Jimmy […]

“Mardi Gras in New Orlean” - Dirty Dozen Brass Band

June 14th

Continuning the posting of Mardi Gras related songs, here’s the Dirty Dozen Brass Band covering “Mardi Gras in New Orleans”. It captures the band live at the 1985 Montreux Jazz Festival, burning it up as they have for thirty years now. They follow in the great tradition of New Orleans brass bands, bringing five horns […]

Dirty Dozen Brass Band/Blind Boys of Alabama in Montreal

June 12th

Here’s a review of one of the more exciting shows at this year’s Montreal International Jazz Fest:
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is as fine a concert group as a parade band and the audience at the Theatre Maisonneuve treated the front four of trumpeter Efram Towns, tenor saxophonist Kevin Harris, trombonist Keith “Wolf” Anderson […]

Brass Band of Battle Creek - Michigan and Florida

June 11th

An all star line up of Brits help Battle Creek in their annual shindig celebrations.Brass Band of Battle Creek continue to make new friends wherever they perform, and recently gave their annual spring concert in Battle Creek followed by three concerts in Florida, in Sarasota and Englewood. Although the temperature in Michigan was in the […]

Kar Ces Brass Band new video - Ederlezi

June 10th

Last year we played with vocal group Lira. It is finally now at youtube. This song is more known as Đurđevdan. Here I play an old helicon tuba. We will play on 2/2/2008 (Slovenian halloween) through the pubs of Cerkno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4XnWahSCd4
Pust - Slovenian Halloween’s day

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