11:34 AM: I found these 11 gouache paintings of our san Luis valley, made in 1999-2001, in my files this morning. i’ve been considering turning one or more into limited edition prints, which will be for sale. this is early on in my exploration of how to make that happen. they were all made on site, from our car, which I drove out to a remote valley location with a great view of the sangre de christo mountains. it’s SO exciting to see them together for the first time! I was just on the phone with a good friend, who knows about turning paintings into prints and will come over to have a look sometime in the next week. more soon! BELOW is one of the 11 you see in the photo above
the sangre de christo mts. seen from san luis valley, 10 1/2 x 36” gouache on paper, 1999
9:42 AM: salida is a one hour drive north from crestone. there was an annual bluegrass festival yesterday, which we had attended last year, so we decided to go again.
last year was very different, as it was for many attendees the first time post covid that they felt relatively safe going to a big event like this. there was a lot of dancing and, in general, there was an air of freedom and celebration.
this year was very different. lousy music, fewer attendees, all of whom seemed to have dogs. some very elegant and beautiful dogs. so we didn’t dance, as there were only a few people doing that. instead we walked about, I made a few drawings of families sitting at the river’s edge and shot about 60 photos, looking at them from above, which I thought I might use for a new series of paintings.
at the river yesterday in salida, during the bluegrass festival