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Wisteria Duet #2
Carol reminded me of the two beautiful wisteria plants at Bush House Museum…(plants I drew and drew when I was the Artist in Residence at the Annex in 2010) so I drove over today for a look… this one...
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“The Mystery Project”
You know I really like Art House Coop and their Sketchbook Project. But all spring I’ve also been doing some of their weekly projects, that have been fun and very amusing. The current one is called...
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Alaska 2…Art Found and Made
Howard and Amy took a trip on the ship Infinity early in the spring through the Panama Canal, and they told me there was a David Hockney on board someplace. When we boarded I asked at the desk for a...
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Project Space: Bonnie Hull
Back to reality today, a week after the wedding. I begin to think about hanging a little show of my summer work down at Project Space. I hope to have it all up Friday the 17th, and the “opening” will...
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“Honesty Lunaria: How One Thing Leads to Another”
We were outside doing a bit of fall garden clean-up today and I found a stalk of money plant I had yanked out in the summer and put aside to deal …and then forgot all about it. A little bouquet is...
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“A DAY WITHOUT WALLS…”
Ellen (creator of the “snail blog”) particularly loves that rare day when there are no requirements, limitations, meetings, errands…a day to just do, well, whatever…and she calls it “a day without...
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Sketchbook Project
Over the last couple of years I’ve had a lot of fun with the Sketchbook Project…sending them a variety of small fabric pieces as well as a couple of little drawing books. They are in Brooklyn and...
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“Map of the Table”
Just finishing up my most recent sketchbook project book in preparation for sending it off to the Brooklyn Art Library…maybe it will come to Portland this summer on the Sketchbook Tour??! One more...
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“Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon”
If you’re down Corvallis way you still have 2 more weeks to see the nice drawing show “Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon” at the Corvallis Art Center (700 SW Madison Ave)…up until May 18th. Of course I...
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Carl Hall: Ephemera
Regional artist Carl Hall left a wealth of material behind for his family to deal with after his death in 1996. His wife and daughters have generously donated paintings to many institutions in the...
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Summer at the Hallie Ford Museum…
We went to the museum this morning to see the new show of Jacob Lawrence’s illustrations of Aesop’s Fables which opened August 3rd and runs through October 27th. The drawings were done in the late...
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Checking In-Checking Out
Busy week here with the usual wide variety of things to think about. We headed to White Salmon Wednesday for a night in the Mt. Hood room and a George Domijan dinner…plus a huckleberry G&T… Then...
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Persimmon Chutney and Sunsets
From the sublime to the sublime. We came to the beach on New Year’s day with the car full of projects and books and instruments (well…a ukulele anyway) AND the last few persimmons from Richard and...
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“Farm Stories”
I once read that the images that are imprinted on an artist’s brain in the first five years are the images that play out through all of their creative lives. I don’t know if this is true, but I can...
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Summer at the Hallie Ford Museum, and Elsewhere…
Friday night was the opening of the two summer shows at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art here in Salem. The BIG summer show is the work of Portland sculptor Mel Katz, with also the very fine show of...
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Art Laundry 2
In 2012 I went to Fort Bragg, California, to make art with my friend artist Carolyn Schneider, and to put up a show called “Art Laundry” at the Lost Coast Culture Machine Gallery. We had fun, worked...
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Art Laundry, Day 6
We’re still ironing, still drawing, doing a bit of mending…talking a lot about housework, sewing, raising families as artistic expression…a great deal of reexamination of the lives of mothers by almost...
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Another Sunday Night
Once again a week has drawn to a close with the next one looming before us. This past week was one of varied activities which included work, friends, art (of course), family, archives, music. It...
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Julie Green, Dan May and 12×16 Gallery
Friday was a day of looking at other people’s art…at last. It started early with a visit to the studios of the six senior art majors at Willamette University who are midway in the process of preparing...
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The Coffee Book
Back in 2008 I started a little drawing book in which I would only record my coffees. For a couple of years it got buried in a pile of drawing books, but eventually was rescued…it started like this…...
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