No time for Yoga this morning. We wanted to get an early start to Jerome the old mining town turned art haven about 25 miles from Sedona. Jerome is truly a painters dream come true. Perched on the side of a mountain, a mile in the sky, old building threatening to fall to the valley and views on this clear day all the way to the Grand Canyon. Galleries of all types are located up and down the streets and I do mean up and down the streets. Painters, potters, weavers and jewelery makers fill the galleries with a feast for the eyes. The artists settled into tiny spots up and down the streets to try to capture the corner of a funky old building or a collection of old signs or just a street scene. We didn't see there completed works since we too wanted to try our hand but we will see their work Saturday morning before we leave town.
Did I mention we had lunch at the Mile High Restaurant. I felt like a local for a minute eating in the Restaurant were the local resident painters hang out. The fellow we met the first day that we were painting in a creek near Sedona has a Studio in Jerome. And on another trip to Jerome I believe that we ate in the same place. Ha, ha like, I felt at home. Lynne liked Jerome and we explored shops and street scenes and photographed it all.
By 4:00 we were pooped and headed home for dinner and then out to hear Stuart Shils talk again about how he got to where he is in his art. From a formally trained artist to the almost totally abstract style he has developed into to day. Once again it was an interesting talk with him not really knowing how he produces his work ' it just happens'. The fact that he almost drank a whole bottle of wine while we listened with not a drop of our own may explain some of his automatic art at this point. Truly his current work is beautiful and mysterious however he gets to it.
Goodnight
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