May 31. 2017  I had coffee with a friend, Matt Stothardt, again yesterday.  What a pleasure.  He is probably the only full time professional scrimshaw artist still working on the West Coast. He has been doing it for 30+ years and has won many awards.  Very humble guy who achieves photorealism quality with a simple [...]

May 29, 2017  I made an appointment on our trip with the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to view Donald Evan's works that they held in the Museum collection.  They were very nice and helped me set up a convenient time.  My wife and I took the tram to Slotermeer station and walked the short distance to [...]

May 28 2017  While I was on my European trip I managed to fit in painting 2 pigeons -- one in Italy and one in Switzerland. I mailed them to myself in those countries and the one from Switzerland was already home when I got back. The other one has not shown up yet nor [...]