6:10 PM: PM: this afternoon i made a new 10 3/4x14” drawing/collage titled carissa dances.
carissa dances, 10 3/4 x 14” colored pencil & collage on bristol paper
a 2025 painitng, 32x32” in oil on linen
this 32x32” painting in oil on linen hangs in our house.
6:12 PM: today mikela and i drove to alamosa; about a one hour drive, to run some errands and do some food shopping. while mikela was running errands, i sat in milagros coffee shop making drawings of patrons sitting nearby. here are the four drawings i made.
10:07 AM: using colored pencils and crayons, i had a few hours to work on 5/17/26 scooterboy (10 3/4x14”) before heading to alamosa at 11. she’s singing a new song now.
BELOW: yesterday’s version is on the left
2:40 PM: this morning, before leaving for the 10:30 am celebration at Shumei Institute, i started a new 10 3/4x14” watercolor/gouache titled scooterboy.
day 1 of scooterboy, 10 3/4x 14” watercolor on bristol paper
5/14/26 drawing/collage following this morning’s modificarions.
11:47 AM: i attended the mens group in crestone this morning and when i returned we took our trail walk, and then i got back to work on yesterdays drawing/collage. i’m not sure about the dark grey vertical on the left of the composition. while it lends structure to the very fluid composition, it amy need to be altered so that it doesn’t draw the eye away from the rest of the composition. actually, i may go ahead and do that as soon as i finish posting.
5/14/26 drawing/collage 10 ¾ x 14” watercolor, colored pencil & crayon on bristol paper, as she looked at 6pm
today i started 5/14/26 drawing/collage, 10 3/4x14 “. like the others i’ve been doing lately, it’s colored pencil, crayon, watercolor & collage on bristol paper.
11:27 AM: yesterday i completed work on 5/12/26 drawing collage, adding a mumber of collaged elements and, most importantly yellow watercolor on the upper portion of the composition.
5/12/26 drawing/collage, 10.75x17” watercolor,crayon & collage on bristol paper
5/12/26 drawing/collage 10.5x17” as she looked at 3pm
2:40 PM: i did some collaging on the completed drawing. it’s getting too hot in the studio and i’m tired, so i’ll return to the house and pick up where i left off tomorrow morning.
lately i wonder how the hell i created whatever i’m looking at that was done only weeks ago. but i know i’ve still got the juice. what emerges each day is unexpected and in my better moments, i can observe the ongoing development of my mark making; my compositional sensibility; my abilty to respond coloristically to where the wind is blowing at a given moment.
1PM: this afternoon i took my stepladder to a familar spot next to my fridge, got up on the first stair and made a colored pencil drawing for my next 10.5x17” drawing/collage.
5/12/26 10.5x17” colored pencil & crayon drawing for a new painting
Baca Summer 5/10/26 10.5x7” watercolor, colored pencil and collage on bristol paper, as she looks on day 2
11:32 AM: my best time to work is first thing in the morning, after making coffee & smoothie, so just now i made significant modifications to baca summer.
Baca Summer 5/10/26 10.5x17” watercolor, colored pencil and collage on bristol paper
3:12 PM: this morning i started a new 10.5x17” watercolor/collage titled Baca Summer. it is an obvious relative to Baca Spring and has the same female dancing figure. like Baca Spring, it transcends traditional time & space, with numerous suggestive lines and forms, allowing the viewer to create their own story. my vision is that there is such a richness that the story can change with repeated viewings.
for those of you not familiar with crestone, colorado, the Baca Grande, where our house and my studio are located, encompasses appproximately 14,000 acres and is at the foot of the Sangre de Christo mountains.
