Hi there, it has been a while.  This spring I needed to get a knee replacement on the Right side.  Unfortunately a couple of weeks after the replacement surgery -- a crack ( fracture ) developed adjacent to the implant.  This needed a second surgery with a plate and screws and since then I [...]

I love shave ice--especially grape. I don't care for the rainbow ones.

Here are 3 more pigeons back from Maui:

My wife and I spent a few weeks on Maui last month.  I took my watercolors and paintbrushes and managed to paint 4 pigeons and then finished a 5th at home.  Here is one of them......our condo looked down on the building pool which was a beautiful blue surrounded by concrete.  It was deeper [...]

Just about done with this one for the country of Pau.  My wife is talking about going back to Hawaii where we lived for 2 years

8-24-25. My back has improved enough to have some short sessions bent over painting.  Look for 2 new stamps ones pictured in a blog post in a few days.   : )

Some of you who follow my Instagram account -- may have already seen it. I finished the painting of a fellow headed out on Ross Lake to a trailhead for a day hike.   It is about 12"  x 12 ".  Although I am still have back pain -- I have been getting out to [...]

I had an operation to remove part of a thoracic disc in late November.  I thought that would do it but unfortunately I now have tighten muscles around the area making it painful to get in and out of bed and cars  :(.  I have started acupuncture and massage and this week in addition -- [...]

I haven't done much painting in the last few months as I have a " slipped disc " in my midback that will require surgery in Seattle.  The pain prevents me from bending over for a long periods of time.  So to compensate I have carved 2 birds --@  life sized.  One is a black [...]

I would like to get a one-man show of some of my work at an art museum.  Since I don't sell any of it -- galleries would not be interested.  So I composed a photobook and will have copies made that I can send out.  It runs about 30 pages.  Maybe someone will take [...]