{"id":2228,"date":"2018-09-08T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2018-09-08T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:21:09","slug":"stadium-high-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/stadium-high-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadium High painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last 3 days I’ve been painting the morning light at Stadium High School. I had a guy stop his car, lean over and roll down his window this morning: “Hey, I’ve been watching your progress. It gets better and better every day you are here!”<\/p>\n

I had a couple with a baby carry some bags of garbage down to my dumpster. They were both very young and handsome. She was totally enraptured by my painting, telling me it was “So Awesome!!” Huh…does an old duffer good to hear that from young people.<\/p>\n

Today there were strikers, and I thought they might walk down to the dumpster where I am painting. But they were busy holding signs…working basically, with no time to check out the scenery. The painting is\u00a0 complicated by the fact that there are a dozen cars in the parking lot. Behind them are some very slender ethereal trees. Both are equally hard to paint. I have a painting from this viewpoint dating to 1997, and I’m tempted to use it for the foreground parking lot. It has no cars, and better landscaping bushes than are currently in place.<\/p>\n

I exchanged a couple emails with my old friend George today.\u00a0 I’ll write more about that later. Climbed at 38 with Lisa and Sue on Thursday. I have a lot of memories of the Far Side. I’ve climbed all of those so many times over the years with a variety of partners, from Dave to Clint, Craig, Marty, Christine, Sue and Lisa. The climbing is fun, and not difficult, starting around 5.6. After climbing the runnout monsters at Darrington, 38 felt very comfortable.<\/p>\n