Posted April 12, 2012 from Seattle After a couple years of work I finally called it quits on the Rockfish painting and it will be available as an offset-litho signed 14 x 18 poster within 2 weeks. I’ll be thrilled a little more even than usual...
Posted April 6th, 2012 from Seattle WA The Leavenworth Spring Birding Festival May 17-20 is set to be better than ever this year! Check out the website at http://www.Leavenworthspringbirdfest.com/ One closely-guarded secret about Leavenworth is that the whole town has incorporated a Bavarian theme into its architecture,...
Posted March 30, 2012 from Seattle, WA Ed Newbold is thrilled to announce that the British Birding Association’s UK400 Club is using his painting of a Nighthawk on its home page as a logo for member sign-in and sign-up. The UK400 Club strives to maintain the...
Posted March 25, 2012 from Seattle, WA Delia and I went up to Two Rivers Wildlife Management Unit south of Monroe, WA yesterday and experienced moments of Two Rivers magic. We got out of the car and were helpfully shown a Bittern in the slough by...
Posted March 18, 2012 from Seattle, WA I’ve mainly been working on Rockfish and other preparations for the next offset litho printing coming soon. But there are some all-new paintings in the studio. The most critical is a 60 inch wide gatorboard painting I’m just beginning...
Posted March 18, 2012 from Seattle Not every venture into nature is equally divine. Today Delia and I and our friend Sherry Lee visited the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge and saw lots of great sights but also some signs that some of the critters were as annoyed...
Posted March 12, 2012 from Seattle, WA Pike Place Market Wildlife Artist Ed Newbold has donated an original painting to the Skagit Land Trust. The Trust, which is embarking on an exciting new project this year, (google Skagit Land Trust) will hang the painting in their...
Posted March 11, 2012 from Beacon Hill, Seattle Every year it’s bound to happen to you if you’re a year-bird-lister, It’s only a question of when: That first trip of the year that doesn’t yield anything new for the year. To be fair, going to Alki...
Posted Feb. 29, 2012 from Seattle An Anna’s Hummingbird is nesting in our backyard Italian Plum for at least the third year in a row. We have no way of knowing if this is all the same individual. Presuming it is, two years ago she raised...
Posted Feb. 11 from Seattle The Market Snow painting started in the last blog is going great, I couldn’t be happier. It’s such a nice place from which to view the market, one wonders even if I should remove the snow and let the scene have...
Posted Jan 31, 2012 from Seattle I’ve embarked on my third Pike Place Market snow try. I want to get that French Impressionist look so everyone will need to seriously wish me luck there. I went down to the market during the height of the snow...
Posted Jan 31, 2012 from Seattle. Delia and I started the month off and running with our year- bird list (see last post) but immediately fell off of our last-year’s pace. We did however see this gorgeous Pileated Woodpecker at the Nisqually. You should see the poses...
Posted Jan. 25, 2012 from Seattle, WA [caption id="attachment_3389" align="alignnone" width="540" caption="I'm pretty sure these were cheerleaders at the 2010 Men's Handball Tournament. Either that or reporters who had just turned in stories about biofuel to their respective news editors."][/caption] How did it become firmly implanted in...
posted Jan. 10, 2012 photo by Nicholas Heyward Monica Newbold Shay Jan. 10, 1953 -July 3, 2011 No brother ever had a better sister. Monica, you were the greatest. You taught me so much and I was in awe of you always. I will love you and miss you until...
Posted Jan.9, 2012 from Seattle Delia’s and my BigYear is off to a great start—We passed 100 species for the country in the quickest time ever for us. On New Year’s Day we left Di Ann's Mountain Valley Resort in Rodeo (We stayed there so we...
Posted Dec. 5, 2011 from Seattle, WA This time of year I always get it in my head that people want snow paintings. That’s not for-sure, but this is: I’d like to have snow paintings in case anyone asks. This is my second attempt at snow in...
Posted Dec. 2, 2011 from Seattle WA We live in the Age of Extinction. It’s nothing to get depressed about or you’d be depressed all the time. What’s exciting—the flip side of the coin--is that ordinary folks like you and me can actually make a...
Posted Nov. 17, 2011 from Seattle, WA I am hoping to visit the printers before all the New Year’s parties, and I have room on the sheet for two new 14 x 18 posters. I’ve been working hard on “Last Call for Anacortes,” shown above, and...
Posted November 14, 2011 from Seattle, WA. I’m running the tiny ad shown here opposing the Keystone Pipeline in the Seattle Times this Tuesday the 15th. It will be in the A-section. The ad is half the size of my normal ads as an experiment to...
Posted Nov. 11 2011 from Seattle, WA Normally I start a painting and immediately start solving problems. But this time I'm not identifying what the problems are, so I'm just in finish-mode. I wish I had a vase of tall blue flowers, I guess, and...
Posted from Seattle, WA Nov. 3, 2011 Nobody’s getting married, I’m working on paintings that are old and some that are new. New trumps old these days so here’s my latest new start: I am delighted, as I usually am at this stage. Sometimes people pick up...
Posted October 27 2011 from Seattle, WA Delia and I went to Sequim for a long weekend Oct 21-23. We were somewhat sequimish about going when we saw the weather forecast, but whenever we got out of the car and started hiking, the rain let up...