Summer Upgrade

Eliot is putting in some new windows!

Lori Has Been Busy!

Lori writes about her latest project:  "The elusive three gill saw shark is finished. It is so rare it has only been seen on Fir Island."
Lori has made this as a gift for a friend ...

Art Camp

Eason ready to beat the big drum at Christine's Art Camp last week.

Charles Painting

Chaz is doing some brilliant flower paintings this year.  Here's one.

Studio Photo - 1988

I found this photo from August 1988 in my studio, quite a bit worse for wear.  (Those dang birds!)  It shows the main part of the studio in work.  It's got a floor and -- I'd guess -- a roof, but no walls yet.  I remember this being taken.  It was a wonderful August afternoon, everything was lush and rich, and I felt like a King!

Art Lovers? Critics? Or Just Here for the Feed?

As I walked out to my studio this morning . . .

'IN THE BLAST ZONE'

That's Julia at left hidden by her sign.

Thursday, July 09, 2015 'IN THE BLAST ZONE' Activists use disaster's anniversary to  call attention to oil trains

Excerpts: A handful of Skagit County residents concerned about oil train traffic organized  a series of events this week as part of a larger campaign called Stop Oil Trains  Week of Action.  BNSF Railway lines that carry crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken region run  north to south through the county, and west from Mount Vernon and Burlington  to Anacortes. About 15,500 residents in Mount Vernon and Burlington are in the  blast zone . . .

Photos by Chanel Retasket / Skagit Valley Herald

Its dark and lonely in Charles's studio at Cain's Lake. Only empty beer bottles and mouse turds. No cigars. Even the usually boisterous paintings are muted.

I have discovered that Ornette Coleman stirs up the bats in my studio even at noon on a hot summer day.

Julia with Flowers

I am almost finished with "Julia with Flowers," just the usual cleanup and detailing . . . I am very happy with this one, thank goodness....

Sally Sends Julia Sends Me: the ring

Here's Sally's ring. It was made in the 1930's, Art Deco style, black jade, with a diamond on top. Beautiful. J  (Note the doggie paws in the background!)

 

Visitor

Lori writes:

Look what visited us today. A banded alder borer beetle. Pretty cool looking enormous mandible! About and inch long body and crazy long antenae . . .