posted May 17, 2022 from Seattle WA Painters used to be at the top of the heap Back in the early 1860s, Painting ruled. France’s leading painter, Ernest Meisonnier, was the best known French person in the world, second only to France's leader, Napoleon III. One of...
Posted January 27, 2022 from Seattle, updated March 24, 2022 I've been painting as though nothing was going wrong in the world. For some reason, I'm concentrating on ducks at the moment, but I did my first fish in a while and I think I...
Posted from Seattle, WA on November 26,2021 The sign at the store says we've been in operation since 1983, but I've been painting longer than that, since 1980 or 81, when at age 30 I got a part-time job--4 hour a day parking-lot attendant-- that allowed...
posted August 6, 2021 from Seattle, WA I am very excited about a new Friday Harbor painting I’ve gotten underway this summer. Several decades ago I decided Friday Harbor was a hopeless candidate for a painting but we made a trip up there in early summer...
Posted on March 31, 2021 from Seattle, WA On a whim I published 7 or 10 digital prints of Whales Starboard sized at 24 x 36, by far the largest print I have ever published. I priced them at $60, and to my surprise, they are...
I have about 6 more Bat paintings to start and then I have to finish all the Bats. Then add numbers and text and produce the poster. The whole project is on a fast track. This is a revolutionary way to present Bats, with 5...
As the Corona virus pandemic shows, the world just needs to love Bats more! And Halloween paraphernalia is going to have to become more biologically accurate! I confess I've never known anything about the various Bat species that live in my state or others for...
Posted or at least begun on August 20 , 2020 I was looking through old mostly failed paintings when I found one of a Belted Kingfisher at what used to be called the Winslow Ferry dock. I definitely haven't added any condos, but I believe...
Posted from Seattle WA on March 20, and updated on April 5th, 2020 in the time of Corona My friend Paul (not Newman) likes to go out to Cape Alava and spend a few nights. He and his cousin were at hole-in-the-wall when they witnessed a...
Posted from Seattle, WA Jan 6, 2020 “…instantly paint what you see. When you’ve got it, you’ve got it. When you don’t, start over…” is a quote from Manet that appears in my book. I however am at the far-other-end of the art world when it comes to...
posted from Seattle, WA October 18, 2019 This painting is "Caspian Tern on Elliott Bay." It's intended to be my lifetime masterpiece, and I hope to have it in four sizes including the extra large 12 x 36" print size, which will sell for $31.79. ...
Posted from Seattle May 2 2019 It didn't take too long to decide what critter to put in the Eagle Harbor painting, although I first tried a Belted Kingfisher, which created all kinds of perspective problems and didn't have the weight needed to anchor the painting. I...
Posted March 13, 2019 from Seattle, WA Maybe it's due to emergence from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) but I am thrilled about some of the paintings I've been working on lately. One painting is Bobcat in the Shrub-steppe which is a very old painting, originally finished in...
Posted October 6, 2018 from Seattle, WA Back in 2004 I got all jazzed up about a poster project that would show the wildlife that you might look for while on a Washington State Ferry (and, by implication, any boat) on the Salish Sea. I did the...
Posted August 3, 2018 from Seattle, WA I've been working on some new paintings for charismatic Southwestern Birds, intended to be both standalone prints and components of a new skinny. The painting above is of a Broad-billed Hummingbird based on a shot from a recent sightings blog...
Posted from Seattle Feb 23, 2018 The remaster of the Rockfish poster is under way. Here's what the poster looks like now: If you look closely, you might notice those fish which I spent many a month painting are swimming in a beige or gray sea. I've...
Posted October 2, 2017 from Seattle, WA Updated December 25 (!), 2017 Most of 2016 and 2017 I was curating painting files and writing my book. Those two endeavors are winding down a little bit and I'm picking up a brush again, and gosh am I...
posted from Seattle, WA on August 14, 2017 I'll blame it on the English language: the title of this blog could mean different things. What it's meant to mean is that I don't finish paintings anymore, I keep working on them indefinitely. [caption id="attachment_10262" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Writing...
Posted October 6, 2016 from Seattle, WA I have been trying to discipline myself to stop painting and concentrate instead on producing a book but that’s going so badly I fall off that wagon and paint now and then. One thing I hate is not having...
Posted July 25, updated August 20, 2016 from Seattle, WA. I am so delighted with the last and maybe final incarnation of Orcas in the Salish Sea that I am publishing it at 12” x 36”. The price will be $40. I do not have the...
Posted May 9, 2016 from Seattle WA I'm working on a new poster that got into the queue ahead of Crabs of the Northwest. It's Specialty and Characteristic Birds of the Chiricahua Mountains. I measured wrong and had to add more board, and I ran off...
Posted April 13, 2016 from Seattle WA. All my painting time is going into "Birds of the Chiricahua Mountains" at the moment. I have to ask Reed, the owner/operator of Cave Creek Ranch, if he thinks Buff-breasted Flycatcher should be in this, or if I've missed...