Posted from Seattle, WA June 5, 2013 The Bottle Beach painting that I force-marched into production for the Shorebird Festival is back on the easel (see last blog.) The two big Sandpipers in the left center have left for Copper River, leaving more of an open...
Posted June 5, 2013 from Seattle, WA Butyl Creek is a 10 ft. recirculating creek in our backyard on residential Beacon Hill. In Seattle all the creeks were sent underground to the Westport sewage station long ago, so birds, who all love and need to bathe,...
posted May 24, 2013 from Seattle, WA The ad shown here will appear in the A-section of the Seattle Times on Sunday, May 26, 2013. Coal dust, climate-change, and train-crossing waits are important issues. But should we even be discussing this? Not if sending more coal...
posted from Seattle, WA on May 13, 2013 For those who didn't see it, here is a small ad I placed in the Seattle Times A section on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The copy said: Sending more coal to China is human cruelty. Are the...
Posted from Seattle, WA May 9, 2013, after return last night from New Mexico and Arizona. Last Saturday Carroll Dwayne (CD) Littlefield, Delia and I headed East over the pass to visit the old homestead of Shorty Miller. Shorty was a Depression-era rustler, no relation to...
Posted April 29, 2013 from Seattle, WA. The Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival left me with such a good feeling about Grays Harbor, the Festival, the people and the shorebirds that after vending all day at the Festival I decided to postpone the trip back to Seattle...
Posted from Seattle April 22, 2013. The ad shown is running the A-section of the Seattle Times on Tuesday the 23rd. The Seabird poster got printed at Olympus Press this morning. As usual, the press folks at Olympus got it looking even better than the proof and...
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...
Posted from Seattle on March 30, 2013 In recent years waiting for a Violet-green Swallow family to get settled at our house has been a bit tortuous. Swallows dislike really bad weather even more than people do, and in miserable springs a male would show up...
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...
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...
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...
posted Feb 4, 2013 from Seattle, WA The above schematic covers the key points I make in the diatribe below, which also gets into the more specific political issues in the I-90 tolling debate as well as the more general issues of taxation vs profit-on-publicly-owned-assets. Disclaimer: I...
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...
posted Jan 28, 2013 from Seattle On Tuesday, Jan 20, 2013, the small ad shown below will be running in the A-section of the Seattle Times. The Jan/Feb 2013 Utne Reader has published an excerpt from Lester Brown’s new book Full Planet, Empty Plates. Brown recaps two recent,...
Posted Jan. 28, 2013 from Seattle, WA The 300 ml lense on my still camera broke in September so I began trying to use my Panasonic Camcorder for wildlife and landscape shots. But on the Peloncillo, New Mexico 2012 Christmas Bird Count I was tripping the...
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...
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...
Posted December 20, 2012 from Seattle, WA. It's in the A-section of the Seattle Times as usual and the subject will again be World Land Trust-US's and its valiant attempts to save key parcels of land in disappearing rain forests that will essentially mean the difference...
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...
Posted Nov. 14, 2012 from Seattle, WA Seattle Wildlife Artist is running an ad in the Seattle Times A Section on November 20 to again attempt to draw attention to the valiant do-or-die struggle against extinction being waged by the World Land Trust-US. The ad is...
posted Nov.2, 2012 from Seattle, WA See the Movie "Last Tango in Poulsbo," at YouTube or here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhiOrvxzOWs&feature=youtu.be The title makes reference to the fact that the last boat in the lineup is named the Tango, and the boats are in Poulsbo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhiOrvxzOWs&feature=youtu.be In the five-plus minute movie, I discuss...