I took an overnight trip to Penrose State Park, on the Key Peninsula, for a raft-up with my friends from Tacoma. I’m glad I snuck through Pitt Passage before sunset, so I could get the lay of the land, because coming back, I had to thread my way back in the fog. It was a nice trip, with good weather, good food, good visiting.
This has been a busy month for my art career. I participated in the Olympia Artswalk, at a restaurant called Darby’s. This year I displayed 8 new paintings, all of them on recycled materials. Then this week, I delivered those pieces to a gallery/shop called “Frank and Dunya”, in the Freemont District in Seattle. I’m also in a show in Seattle sponsored by the “Re-Store” at the “New York Fashion Acadamy” in Ballard.
Just thought I’d post this latest picture, which was taken at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival in September, by a friend, Mike.
As is my custom, the week following my return home was devoted to the flu. Now that I’m recovering from that, I’m returning to work on Trudes’ and my new house, which is a 1934 cabin in NW Olympia. Since last April we have completely gutted and updated it, with new insulation, a foundation repair, new wiring, new windows, etc… I’m now working on baseboards and window trim, which leaves only the acid-staining of the concrete floor in the kitchen, new kitchen cabinets, and then a lot of little details. I’m also preparing for Artwalk, which is Friday evening. I have a few new paintings which need to be framed this week, and I want to create a more professional mobile display, with its own lighting, because the lighting at Darby’s, the restaurant where Trudes and I will be showing, is poorly lit.
