02-21-20  A friend of mine, Cactus, was in Amsterdam and sent me the following picture of windmills on the coast -- it reminded me so much of Donald Evans my hero  ( see the tab on this website -->  Stamp Art ) and here is a page of Donald's windmill paintings

2-02-20  Cool date !  Anyway here is the new painting from the Islands.  As I mentioned in my Instagram post --- it is a tragic but beautiful story.  Find it under the Paintings tab @  Skookum - Van Gogh........

01-27-20  My wife and I went to Friday Harbor last week to relax for a few days and give me a chance to do some research for a memorial painting of a patient of mine.  Washington State has a system of ferries that get you there....at sunset time they make for a spectacular ride.  Friday [...]

    Wonderful book this one.  Its ~ 280 pages taking each color of an artist's palette and going thru the history of how the color came to be & notable events relating to the color over history.  Very readable especially for those who find color --> of the the greatest pleasures in life.   [...]

1-3-20  Here is the other new one.  My friend Peter may be headed to Australia ( where he grew up ) later this winter which of a course is summer down there......very generous guy and he may be willing to take it with him...

1-2-20  Happy New Year everyone !  My friend Beth took several pigeons on her Camino pilgrimage this summer.  The is one that I did not get done in time before she left --- so recently I finished it up.  Unusual angle, but its a pilgrim in blue jeans sitting down with their sock rolled down [...]

12-23-19  just finished up 2 pigeons, one I had started for the Camino and one of surfing for Ahzz.  Pictures soon..... Merry Christmas and Best of the Season everyone......

12-9-19  Haven't done much painting recently because of traveling and now all the holiday preparations.  Hopefully soon.  Here is a picture of another one of my artforms -- dominoes.  My family and I go to a lake up in the mountains every summer.  The resort has a woodshop they let me use and so I [...]

12-7-19  Here is a small paragraph from the chapter about Donald Evans in Chatwin's book: IN February 1972, he packed his watercolours and a stack of perforated papers and flew to Holland where a friend had rented a cottage ' behind the dike ' ( Achterdijk ) near a village not far from Utrecht.  Immediately [...]

11-25-19  If you get a chance hunt up a copy of Bruce Chatwin's book  What Am I Doing Here. He has a chapter in there reviewing Eisenhart's book I mentioned in my chapter on Stamp Art i.e  The World of Donald Evans.  My copy puts it at page 263.  Very nicely written.  Wonderful to read [...]