this is a very warm and sweet event, with carefully selected artisans and crafters.
i'll have my journals and cards for sale there; come check it out if you're in the neighborhood!
Inter-Island Creative Affair 2014
this is a very warm and sweet event, with carefully selected artisans and crafters.
i'll have my journals and cards for sale there; come check it out if you're in the neighborhood!
big valley builders
bigvalleybuilders.com
...probably one of my last signs! nobody wants to pay me a living wage for this, and i'm done being cheap.
a recipe for 50 years of marriage
all of the information and text was provided to me by the family, and it was designed collaboratively in the beginning, until i researched some Polish ornamental design...then i went crazy.
another new sign in the village; deja vu
Lopez Island Coffee Roasters
a work in progress, and then the finished product.
this is the largest sign i've painted, at 4 x 10 feet!
i'll add a photo soon of the sign on the roaster building, where it was recently installed in Lopez Village.
you can find Dean slinging fresh coffee and beans at the Lopez Farmer's Market, most saturdays.
slow art studio & bindery
i did make the 'storage' sign above as well, many years ago now. it's facing north, so it's holding up pretty good!
RIP TS Applegate
this isn't a sign, but it's something i had to, unfortunately, draw last week, regarding one of my dearest and most important friends ever, app. i'm writing a graphic biography about this boat that he built on orcas island, and him, and a lot of other stuff. his contribution to the world was enormous, and he was under 5 feet tall.
Common Ground Community Land Trust
these are faily self-explanatory; this neighborhood needed a bit of identification, and i was able to provide. i always love to make "non-commercial" signs.
vivid salon, lopez island
vivid salon is now open in a new location in lopez village, behind lopez bookshop and the holly b's complex.
Village Arts: locally crafted on Lopez Island
Coming March 29!
Village Arts locally crafted
....on Lopez Village! we are opening our doors Easter weekend with pottery, glass, jewelry, textiles & fiber arts, photography, letterpress, and more. This is a small collective of artists, some of them formerly of LoCo, who are now occupying the homestead water tower.
more info coming soon...
...this is the fourth or fifth sign i've painted for the tower in about 10 years! i also had my painting studio in the second floor room, 10 x 10 feet or 3 x 3 meters, for a couple of years. i'm excited to be in the tower again! this is my true 'hood in the village, and we will be busting out with the hula hoops again in the old plum orchard, so come play this summer!
a sign for my other studio door
i've really been drawing more than painting lately. it's so frickin' fun! and, i can do it on my couch while i'm watching movies at night, in my jammies. i'm working! really! i love winter.
the hamlet
i'll post better photos soon, of the 10 signs i finished in january for the senior housing hamlet in lopez village.
many thanks to ronni, my flexible, occasional employee, for helping me paint and keeping me company in the studio! we painted 7 small parking signs that were identical, and therefore tedious.
here are some of the signs in place:
else's invitation
wow this was a really fun project! i didn't make much money on it but i did learn a lot about my markers.
slow art studio
stop on in, if you can catch me there! i'm getting quite a bit less work done now that i'm not working at home in my jammies.
center church sign restoration
a lopez historical landmark finally got a facelift. i also painted a new one for the bottom, but it's not hung up yet.
update: the bottom sign was hung up, as well as all of the parking signs i made. it looks good! there was a bit of a snafu on the color of "white" that i used, but it seems to have worked itself out. i try not to use "white white" because it's sort of glaring on the eye. but white isn't always white, and i need to pay closer attention. lesson learned! sometime i need to take another pic on a cloudy day....
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