03.08.10
This Is My First Painting Since I Was Blinded Seven Years Ago…
I’ve never received a letter like the one below. I wanted to cry and jump for joy all at once.
Howdy, Darrell. I just got my first painting done since I lost my eyesight.
03.07.10
Sunroof, Burnt Shoulders and Alan Jackson.
I walked around in a short sleeve shirt today.
Took a late morning drive. Yeah, I wanted to go for a walk on the Beach. But I didn’t So I just drove around in my HHR.
The heat of the sun burned wonderfully upon my shoulder with the sunroof open. Alan Jackson on the radio.
Everything building the anticipation for summer.
And I think that’s one of the beauty of the canvas. We can make summer last forever in our very own world. And to help you celebrate summer’s arrival on canvas I have a three DVD offering just for you. I like hiking, fishing and walking on the beach as part of my favorite summer activities. So I’ve built three new paintings with these themes.
03.06.10
It’s March……Time For A Summer Celebration
A couple of weeks, my wife says that March is just around the corner and before you know it, summer will be here.
Summer!
Seven inches of snow on the ground, single digit temperatures, heating oil at $3.00 a gallon and summer is around the corner…?
Hmmmmm. Not a bad thing to think about. I love summer. Love to hike. ….. and especially fish. And whenever I’m not doing either of those, just taking a walk on the beach will do quite nicely instead. Fishing, hiking and beaching. Not a bad way to live.
What about you? What do you like doing in the summer? What’s your summer fun?
March Update
Feburary will go down in history here as one tough month.
Weather-wise: cold, snow, and mostly unpleasant.
March has started out as though Spring was here and we’ve got a really warm weekend ahead.
I’m still on my exercise program and losing weight through the Diabetic D-Tour diet. It’s very well balanced and my drill Sergeant daughter ensures exact proportions and full 90 minute daily exercises. The other day when we were coming close to being finished I expressed surprise. “Hon,” I asked, “what’s the matter, you were really easy on me today.” I have since learned that was the wrong question. I am now in a perpetual stage of muscle fatigue.
03.04.10
Gooosh! My cheeks are red……I did something stupid yesterday.
Ever have one of those days where you do something……
And then you realize it was a dumb thing…..
A little more patience, a little more thought and the whole thing wouldn’t have happened at all.
I just had one yesterday.
I was cleaning up my 13 databases. I combined the first customer database of 768 names with my second customer database. Not really a problem. Except I forgot that the only way anyone normally gets on the customer database is by buying something. So the newer database happily sends out a Thank You note to all people added to it.
Yeah…..you figured it out. 768 people yesterday flooded me with emails yesterday asking….What order?
Sorry. And no you didn’t order anything. So if you got the email and didn’t order anything please except my red cheeks and apology.
02.19.10
Professional Cartoonist Carlos Castellanos
I met Carlos on the internet about two years ago. He has a blog and he sells how to “toon”
Today, Carlos has a secial guest show in which he interviews another professional cartoonist, Bob Ostrom.
This is a very infomative film, chock full of an alternate lifesysl
02.18.10
Puzzling Day
There’s this strange, lurking silence hovering over the Crow’s household this past week.
And Santa Claus is at fault.
I’d gotten a puzzle for Christmas. One of those 1,000 piece jobs. My daughter-in-law, Mary, had given it to me Christmas day.
I decided to put it together a week ago.
Spread the pieces out, face up and then worked until the edges were all put together.
Called it a night then.
Next morning, I noticed 15-20 pieces had been put together.
Same thing each morning.
During the day, no one can walk from the living room through the dining room enroute to the kitchen without stopping, staring and spending another 20 minutes.
Puzzle junikies!
That must be what we be.
Anyone out there a puzzle junkie as well?
02.09.10
The Fifth Hole
Just a quick note to let all members of the YouCanPaintClub that the Fifth Hole video of how to paint a golf course scene is now up. The film is in the New For This Month Category. Hope you enjoy it.
This lesson is the result of many who have requested information on how to paint fairways, greens and sandtraps. I think you’ll find this quite an exciting exercise. This video is also available for purchase as a DVD for $14.95 for the next five days which includes worldwide shipping. Availability is now.
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01.31.10
Shipping Log, Films and Coooooooooooool!
Friday was an exciting day……
We shipped out all of the orders for the Half-A-Dozen DVDs and we had Half-A-Dozen up and running on YouCanPaintClub.com.
Today we’re now uploading A Cozy Little Hide-A-Way to the Club and we’ve packaged up all of the orders for this DVD and they will go out in the morning.
This coming week we have two more films we’re preparing. They include the 5th hole at Peeble Beach Golf Course in Carmel, California and the Abbey from England. The 5th Hole will be done with Water Mixable Oils and the Abbey will be with Acrylics.
So be on the lookout for these two films.
It’s so hard to believe that its only been two weeks since the YouCanPaintClub.com has opened. Yet we have most of the films loaded, have added two new films and in February will be splashing our new webcast shows. Life seems so different this year.
Take care……..have a great cooooooooool weekend if you’re in New England. Warmer one elsewhere.
01.30.10
Painting A Wet Tree Over A Wet Mountain?
Hi, Darrell, and thank you for your last reply. I continue watching your videos and have tried with very little success. I know practice makes perfect. One problem I am having is when I try and paint say a large tree over a distant mountain that when I start overlapping the mountain my tree turns into mud. Is my paint perhaps to thick or am I trying to paint over too thick of paint? Would adding thinner to my tree mix solve this problem?
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