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...
posted Oct 12, 2012 from Seattle, WA Since I’m running out of notecards, I’m going to have to publish a new batch. I’ve been painting lately with one eye on the goal of good notecard-paintings. But there’s an ever-present danger here. Inevitably, when you paint, you...
posted Sept. 30, 2012 from Seattle, WA I'm putting this ad in the Seattle Times soon, I'm not sure exactly which day. It's intended to draw attention to WLT-US's effort to save a key piece of the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. Here is the link to WLT-US's...
Posted Sept. 21, 2012 from Seattle, WA Maybe about 20 years ago I did a painting on Gatorboard. I had trouble in one area—probably some animal’s head—and there the gatorboard bubbled up. I told myself: Take Gatorboard off the list of usable substrates. But recently I had...
Posted August 10, 2012 from Seattle WA Delia and I got back from the southern “Bootheel” of New Mexico earlier this evening. We visited her Dad, and it was my first trip ever where it wasn’t to visit “Bob-and-Katie,” since her mom Katie passed away on...
Posted July 5, 2012 from Seattle Press Release On July 18, 2012 leaders of the WORLD LAND TRUST-US will be at the Pike Place Market for an Open House at the newly-expanded Ed Newbold Wildlife Artist Store. DR. PAUL SALAMAN, Chief Executive Officer, DR. ROBERT RIDGELY, Honorary President,...
Posted June 17, 2012 from Seattle, WA The first Seattle from the Bay painting I did has sold very well but when I went to make changes or improvements on it, the painting felt too small. Working in miniature is no fun when you're painting buildings...
Posted June 11, 2012 from Seattle, WA Delia and I traveled out to the Snoqualmie Valley yesterday and took about 16,000 steps at the Stillwater Wildlife Management Unit there. (Delia wears a “pedophile” (Paul Dunn-from-the-Market’s joke, it's more accurately called a pedometer) and always knows how...
Posted from Seattle, WA April 29, 2012 I’ll be at the Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest! What’s more, two new originals will be on sale there. Events like these force me to part with paintings so are a essentially a rare opportunity to buy Newbold originals. (I...