Having a family gives an artist a wonderful opportunity and an endless collection of photographs that can be used for reference materials for paintings. While I am exploring this new art form, the possibilities are just endless. I am not sure how far I am going to go with this, but so far, it’s been…

Can you tell I am having a lot of fun painting in Chris Crite’s style? This time I tackled a pose of Donald’s that I particularly like, of course, he was talking.

Once upon a time, Donald was training for Ramrod -that’s ride around Mount Rainier in one day for those of you that do not know. It’s about a 160 mile ride that must be done in one day. It’s a ride I was never interested in, because it was so long and hard. But one…

Chris Crites is a brilliant young contemporary artist who happens to live in Seattle. I have enjoyed his work for years, his most prolific venue is painting mugshots on brown paper bags. Check out his website! He offered a one day “Expand your Palette” workshop at Pratt, one of many fine art establishments near me,…