Sunday, February 1, 2009

Rocky Mountain PBS



So a couple weeks ago I got a call from our local PBS station. They have a feature called "Western Bounty" where they interview Colorado artists; apparently it runs several times during a month and I am their February artist. You can also view it online (if I did this correctly, anyway...) by following this link or by going to rmpbs.org and putting my name into the search engine on their site.

http://www.rmpbs.org/panorama/?entry=392

The image I was working on at the time is a big train hub here in Grand Junction. It was very difficult to work on while being filmed, even worse than painting for a demo because of the lights and the big freaking camera! Also, I work very quickly, layering the entire substrate rather frantically. At one point the camera man asked me if I could "just stay still for a minute." He was having difficulty focusing...