Posted April 12, 2013 from Seattle, WA Scroll down for April 17 Update! It’s official!!! I’m going to be at the Gray’s Harbor Shorebird Festival, the big shindig in honor of the thousands of shorebirds that migrate through the Gray’s Harbor area in April and May. The headquarters will be at Hoquiam High School … Continue reading
Posted from Seattle on April 1, 2013, (no fools-joke) from Seattle, WA I was just at the Optometrist’s office, I recommend it, it’s nice to be able to read again, plus you get to answer the question “Is Number one better, or is Number two better?” quite a lot. Well, the same with this blog. … Continue reading
Posted March 17, 2013 from Seattle, WA If I had asked an expert in the 1970s if the Parakeet Auklet should be included on a Seabirds of the Northwest Poster, I’m sure they would have said, “No, you don’t run into those until you get pretty far up into Alaska.” But a few weeks … Continue reading
Posted March 2, 2013 from Seattle, WA Seabirds of the Northwest is finished and will be available in 12 x 16 and 18 x 24 soon at the store. The 12 x 16 should be on the website soon. Seabirds represented a departure in that I painted 7 large paintings of Seabirds and combined them … Continue reading
Posted Feb.11, 2013 from Seattle WA. It’s the Year of the Snake and I’m jumping on the bandwagon! I have my own photo ref of only three or four species of snakes. It comes from living in the Northwest, where snakes can be an afterthought. But we are in New Mexico a lot, so I’m … Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2013 from Seattle, WA. The Poulsbo painting, which can’t be titled “Last Tango in Poulsbo,” because the name on the boat “Tango” in the current version isn’t quite legible, will be at the store by Jan 29, 2013 in an 18 x 24 and 12 x 16 version. (see last blog post … Continue reading
Posted from Seattle Jan.17, 2013 I started a painting last year of boats in the Poulsbo Marina and I thought it might turn into a really good painting. I made a movie about it but ended up just saying that I hadn’t maybe finished it but had arrived at an “intermediate endpoint.” That’s a phrase … Continue reading
Posted December 20, 2012 from Seattle, WA In my last post I wrote about how I’m going to paint seabirds first, then worry about the arrangement when I get the scans into the computer. I’m a long way from the finish line, but there are now two panels of birds done and I threw what … Continue reading
Posted Nov. 28, 2012 from Seattle, WA A 14 x 18 poster of Seabirds of the Northwest has been on my mind for years now. Indeed, in 2009 I went to the trouble of making cutouts of Seabirds and posting them to a board for a week so I could get a composition schematic to … Continue reading
posted Nov.2, 2012 from Seattle, WA See the Movie “Last Tango in Poulsbo,” at YouTube or here: The title makes reference to the fact that the last boat in the lineup is named the Tango, and the boats are in Poulsbo. In the five-plus minute movie, I discuss composition issues and problems I’ve had with … Continue reading
