"road king" birdhouse

 

This was an experiment to see if I could build a "2" bird house in one, we will see if it sells....

teardrop birdhouse

 

Every spring for the past 5 years I have made these bird houses inspired by an example I saw at a museum in Chicago. I am making 36 to start with this year, and maybe more if needed later. Sell them out the front lawn and it's a great way to meet and visit with travelers passing through.

"chair"

 

As a change from flat painting, my wife, Paula, and I created this chair for an auction to support our local museum. I painted and she quilted the seat and back. Intrested to see how it will sell at auction.

Sunflower #5

 

I will be having a gallery show of these sunflowers at the Whopping Chronies Gallery in Missoula, Montana during April. Busy now building frames for them like the frames Georga O'Keefe put on her work using door casing, thats right, door casing. She painted hers silver, I will go with black.

Sunflower #4

 

Finished the sunflower series and ended up with 8. Some handmade paper accepted paint well, others resisted it with a will. I may try this again, if I can find other papers to use.

the castillo of San Felipe

 

4 x 6 watercolor Made up a traveling art set, but it still needs some work, the brushes I chose to take were really crappy! And I had no way to sharpen my pencil or erase. Still, had fun making small paintings, this one of the fort that protected Spanish ships as the entered Lake Izabal from the Gulf of Honduras. Pirates would follow the slow moving ships and take them hostage or rob them.

Chichi

 

4 x 6 water color I tried to make location paintings every day while in Guatemala, but being on vacation whith so much to see, and a "really" poor brush for the job, I ended up with just a few paintings. This is an old house outside my hotel room in Chici.