Estacada Mural

This is my fav mural in Estacada. Estacada is a small town up river from Portland where we go camping each year. This mural is on the wall of the local grocery store. Estacada has a group of local artists who do a new mural every summer. Nephew Butch and I spent a morning this summer in town to take pics of many of the murals. They have some nice murals that I will share later on. I really love public art, especially murals. There is a lot of great public art in my area. I'm working on getting pics of as much as I can.

Studio Wall

This is a wall in my studio aka our sun room. You can see my pirate flag and some wooden skeletons that I painted. There is also a sketch of the Venus of Willendorf that I did in preparation for a painting that never happened. The other newsprint papers on the wall are other sketches I did for paintings. The sun room isn't the greatest room. It leaks in the winter time and is too hot in the summer time. What I really need is a bigger living room so that I can work and leave it out in progress while still hanging out with the family in a temperature controlled room. The other half of the sun room contains Jenn's craft materials and a study area for her. I really need to get something set up soon though because I think I'll do paintings for my family for Christmas this year.

Anything Packy can do, Labs can do better

This is picture of my dogs doing art to sell at a fundraiser. Packy, an elephant at the Oregon Zoo, paints and sells artwork. I figured the therapy dogs could do it too. We made some money for the therapy dog program.

DBT hell in a hand basket

This is a colored pencil picture that I did of Tank when she was about four months old.

I'm dog tired today. The DBT for teens group that I faciliate went to hell in a hand basket very fast today. Thirteen year old girls are my least favorite animals on the planet.

Reach for the stars

This isn't the best photograph but it's all I got of some oil pastels that I did last year. This is one of them that I sold. The actual art piece is very colorful. Currently, I am working on getting some pieces done to sell at Vancouver Pride later this month.