carving it
the elaborate plan (This is going to be a character from Doors.)
some of the many results
My son keeps asking me to buy more pumpkins cause he keeps getting more ideas. I don’t mind; pumpkins are cheap this time of year. Jack o’lanterns are no longer a measure to keep evil spirits away. (We don’t need that; we have Christ!) They are now a whimsical autumn art form. My son is an artist and I can’t restrain him from doing artist things.
I call it, “The Many Moods of Big Southern Butte.”
These are all 12×12 paintings, and they will all be for sale at American Falls Days in early August.
These two sunset ones are already claimed.
Plus, a bonus farm painting…
I swear I am not making this up.
Some late Spring evenings really do look like this, from our house, looking north.
This is a view of Big Southern Butte at the moment long after sunset when the entire sky is pink and the ground is mostly too dark to see, other than that it is dark green.
Behind Big Southern Butte, you can see the beginnings of the Pioneer Mountains.
I did this quickly, using blocks of color, similar to my farm painting last year. That one portrayed a wheat field just beginning to turn yellow; this field is much younger, still green.
The road barely glimmers in the gloaming.
The green in the foreground is our front lawn.
Here it is, photographed in low light:
I got this fantastic mug at university. I bought it from a sale the Art Dept students were having. Back then, buying anything at all was a big decision that I had to justify. When my Japanese roommate saw it, she got all excited and said the mug looked Japanese. I probably should have given it to her (sorry, Makiko!), but I didn’t. I am still treasuring it all these years later.
Faithful OOB readers have seen this mug before, in my “I Like Bears” post. I think my husband got it for me during a trip to Yellowstone years ago, then it spent several years in storage, then I re-discovered it, with new appreciation, after our most recent move. I use it now because my book The Strange Land features a Bear of Justice.
This lovely thing was purchased at the Fantasy Faire, from a stonewear booth (advertising slogan: “Get Stoned”). I asked the potter, an older lady, about her process, and she said, “I take some clay. I throw it on the wheel. I make a cup. I glaze it, and then I fire it.”
Do you like stonewear?
My portrait, done by caricature artist Erica Alldredge at the Pocatello Fantasy Faire.
She kept my features as-is, but exaggerated the clothing – the hairiness of the fur, the size of the bone in the hair. I was thinking of using the results of her work as a profile picture, but … whaddaya think? Too good? To loose? I do love the style.
https://mysticrealmsfantas.wixsite.com/mysticrealmsfair
That’s right, folks, on June 17 and 18, my son and I will be vendors at the Mystic Realms Fantasy Fair at the Bannock County Fairgrounds in Pocatello, Idaho! We’ll have a 10×10 booth, which we are working hard on making its appearance authentic.
Looks pretty modern still. Got a lot of work to do.
My son will sell the Galaxy Rabbit paintings that he has become known for, as well, as other night-sky-themed art:
I, of course, will sell hard copies of my trilogy
and the character art that you can see on my Art page.
I don’t own an authentic medieval or Renaissance period costume, but luckily, the organizers have dubbed it a “fantasy” fair rather than a “medieval” or “Renaissance” fair. This leaves wiggle room for vendors to dress as fae, mermaids, pirates, or … ahem … cave women …
Come if you can!
