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celebrate those who have gone home.

fall

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getting down to the last few days before my fall show. not a lot of pieces but several good pieces.

crapper

bench final stage

half dome

or more specifically, half cone. paper craft sketch.

Claws assembled

Applying the paperback skin to the claws.

Once Claw

all the structure parts of a crab claw for Crab Totem.

Claw Parts

Parts for Crab Totem

bench Project: stage 5

finally putting color down.

Crab Totem

Stack of crabs: design for sculpture.

More crab shapes

crab shape

An introduction to a stiff elbow

some times the way I sit makes my left elbow sore. What the heck.

Bench Project: stage 4

Layout of crabbish features

Bench Project, stage: 2

Torn down, stripped of brown paint, sanded, washed and mineral spirited. Ready for primer and paint.

Bench Project: stage 3

primed and basecoated but too heavy to reassemble by myself. next step: layout. might vary slightly from the original design, i want to make sure the key components mesh with the slats and retain the important details.

Crab Sculptures

working on a series of crab themed shadow boxes for artswalk. All paper sculpture. funny simple shapes. Hopefully will be good.

Gold Leaf Guilding

fake gold leaf added to this drawing. Add some value with metal. I totally effed it up though when I sprayed a varnish on it and dulled the metal. Would this happen with real gold? Was it the temperature? The varnish? who knows. I'm going to hit it with the mineral spirits to try to bring back the luster. Might be a lost cause.

A wary troll

After that third goat, he's looking a little more cautious.

Capital Theater Project

sketch: chandelier in capital theater. Working on making a few line drawings of the Capital Theater for a coloring book that will be used as a fund raiser. Should be fun, so many great elements.

Mackerel Sky in color

A color version of my grey scale wash drawing I did for 26 feet of art. meh, I personally think the greyscale gives more drama and loneliness. I also need to work on that hillside a little more.

The bird

as finalized from the previous entry. Still wish I'd planned it better.

Leaves, sky, void

Working on my 26 feet of art project for the Washington Center of the Performing Arts. Wish I'd given more thought to the bird shape, but interested in the color of the leaves.

Adrift sketch

More doodles for a Northern project.

Northern Kraken

Sadly the Northern: Olympia All Ages Project is getting the boot from their location. I am working on some designs for some sort of fundraiser I can do for them.

Crab doodles

1 foot of bird.

Stages in an illustration I am donating to The Washington Center for the Performing Arts for their fall fundraiser auction "26 feet of art". 26 pieces by 26 artists each 12"x12".

I was trying to create an altocumulus mackerel sky with some wet on wet technique. I think it turned out pretty good even in grays.

I paint through the desert a horse with no name.

2 stages of a horse. Trying to come up with an idea for an auction donation that should support the arts and get good press. I don't think this one is it, but I like the little cloud.

all rock

A sketch of someone who is living it.

flyer finals

Long versions for shops

Dinosaur

dinosaur

Nude with Daffodils

Postcard