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Moving On to New Movie Project

I'm gearing up to work on my next octopus-free project: my stop-motion animation Cat Scouts movie, "Catnip Kingdom," an homage to Wes...

Art Splash Tour: Runaway Success!

For the Ocean Shores Art Splash Tour, I used my tiki hut vs. my studio to display my recent work --- it provided room to stretch out,...

Another Octo....

I sort of took a week off after the Art Splash studio tour. I hadn't planned on making any art this week, but made I did, finishing a...

Meet Karen Fox on Art Splash Studio Tour

Local artists are madly scrambling to produce art in preparation for the Art Splash Studio Tour in Ocean Shores WA on August 12/13. That...

Farewell, Raz

My most recently completed cat portrait is of Cat Scout Raz. Raz lived in Florida, not far from Cape Canaveral. He was a Cat Scout for...

Brad the Black-Headed Grosbeak

Another image for the Deck Tails book. This note is from Brad the Black-headed Grosbeak. Male grosbeaks are striking birds. I remember...

It's Turtle Time!!!

This week I moved from an octopus series to a sea turtle series. Who can look at new hatchlings scrambling from their nests to meet the...

Henry David is Complete

I finished the portrait of Henry David. It's 8x10 on canvas, mixed media with torn paper collage and acrylic. The background collage...

Deck Tails

A project of mine that's been percolating for ever so long is "Deck Tails," a book chronicling my wild life with wildlife. It all started...

I'm an Octopus Magnet!

Steeped in octopus imagery, I walked into a hotel (the Kimpton Palladian in Seattle) yesterday to find an extraordinary art installation...

Octopattern

This was a challenge. It was a chance to practice making a repeatable pattern. But man, it takes forever to make all those marks, and...

Henry David

Just started a mixed media torn paper collage and acrylic painting of Henry David, a Virginia cat who went to The Bridge recently. His...

End of the Octopus Line

I'm finishing the last of my current octopus series this week. This is another behemoth: 36"x24" mixed media on stretched canvas. In...

Another Octoartist: Caitlyn Stewart

Caitlyn Stewart is a Maryland artist who also has a few octopi in her portfolio. I've taken a deep dive into octoart to observe how other...

Purple Abstractopus

This week I finished another octopus painting, a mixed-media collage on 36"x24" stretched canvas. The blue area is composed of torn...

Kim Jordan Uses Junk to Make Art...Like Me!

This morning I ran across the work of collage/mixed media artist Kim Jordan. She's in the Pacific Northwest, far south of me in Mt Hood,...

Abstractopus

My third octopus project is a cut paper mixed media collage on 16"x24" canvas. This pushes it into the abstract, celebrating all those...

Octogoodness!

I'm in the process of creating a series of octopus illustrations. This is a cut paper mixed media collage. I am so in love with the...

I'd Like to Be Under the Sea...

My fave movie from last year was "My Octopus Teacher," the tender story of a guy and the sea creature he befriends. I fell in love. This...

And More Fur, Feathers & Fun!

Coincidentally, not long after exploring the work of Elizabeth Hilaire, I found Lisa Morales, who, like Elizabeth and I explores mixed...