Originally established around 2007, I made two signs for this greenspace in Lopez Village; one at each end of the trail. One sign has long ago disappeared and this one was attached to a fully rotted stump.
Weirdly, in 2023 I moved into a house whose entrance shares the beginning of this path. I have been working on some signs since then....
This is the old OG sign, 2007.
I lived in La Conner from 2017-2023 so there is a bit of a break in the signpainting, aside from making my own signs for Book Arts La Conner.
These were made just over a year ago, when I was beginning to move back to the island.
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My first sign after moving to La Conner in 2017; the business name later changed to Book Arts - La Conner; then the pandemic shut me down 2 years into my project. I loved painting this sign stand and it is still there on Morris Street, empty and sad, as you first drive into town from the roundabout (I took the sign with me).
I was able to live in this house, have a small gallery, represent over 20 artists and also offer a small classroom space where I taught beginning Book Arts and block printing. I am still trying to get going again.
I tried advertising my skills in the valley, but this was my only job, a drag-racing car in a Burlington garage. It was interesting, but enamel paints are very hard to work with!
I'm not going to lie, I am getting better and better at this signpainting gig.
This was a pandemic job; the almost full sheets of plywood barely fit into my tiny La Conner studio! But I was happy to have it.
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