Newsletters So I’m going to start this newsletter out a bit different and get straight to the painting. Yucca 24in X 18in Acrylic on Canvas June 2026 About Feelings of the southwest reflecting against a grey-scale figure. With her new “perspective” laying down, the challenge for me was to paint a meaningful landscape, using the […]
Newsletters May 2026 I have to say how thankful I am to have as much help as I do around me. My poor mom acts as a volunteer employee helping run errands in the city that is 4 hours away where I do a lot of art business. Then the homies I work with in fire
Newsletters Dang, I recently caught what a side profile picture of me bending over relaxed looks like. Combine that with scrolling through my photo album and seeing what I looked like 2 years ago… reality hurts. So, on that note April was filled with spring cleaning, rain catch system, garden prep, 7 pounds lost (to be continued),
Newsletters Happy March. I am currently running the spell check and finishing up this letter in my hotel as I prepare to travel back to the southwest from my fire assignment in central Florida. This month was composed of contemplations, moments of ah-ha’s and hmm’s, initial attacks, tick avoidance, ash pits, the smell of 2 stroke
Newsletters February 2026 And here we are. For some reason this month felt shorter than the others. First off I want to let you know that I have found the spell check feature and now know how to use it. So thanks for bearing with me on the last newsletter. It cracks me up
Newsletters January 2026 First month of the year down. The daylight is noticeably getting longer now and we are into the new year. The new calendars and pocket planners are being used and blocks are starting to be penciled in. I personally enjoy having something on my calendar that I can work towards or having
Newsletters December 2025 Happy New Year!December was a month of eating too much, strangely warm weather, out of townweekends, exercise challenges, books, lectures and podcasts, new music, painting, artshow applications and gallery/shop/brewery visits and belly laughs.One of the books I finished was Spring Chicken by Bill Gifford. A book about longevity and aging. It starts
Newsletters November 2025 Happy November, Quick update then right into the meat of it. November was primarily filled with travel. First was Mexico to teach a wildland fire chainsaw course for a few weeks, then to weekend and holiday trips to visit families. I was able to squeeze together a new idea and a sketch
Newsletters October 2025 The month of October was filled with a lot of color, completed paintings, online art sale, some awesome weather, prescribed burning, a long weekend in Seattle, friends, wood hauling for the winter and more books.Thank you to everyone who placed an art order during this sale! I will be working to start
Newsletters Happy September newsletter September was filled with closing out fires on the forest, prepping for the 5th Annual Palisade Mountain Arts Festival, attending the 5th Annual Palisade Arts Festival, book reading, sweater weather, coffee, beer and endless house chores. One of the good books I finished this month was about dopamine and its effects
