Went to breakfast at a favorite spot last saturday and found out its scheduled to close 12/31/09, it will be missed


after breakfast we walked over to a friends place, she's out of the country rite now so we go by and retrieve the mail and deposit it inside her place for safekeeping 'til she may peruse it.....or not








at home i've been working on some oil paintings , they are coming along at a VERY slow pace, but I think it's what I like about them

Seattle sketches

drinkin and drawin often go together for me, I have been in seattle for 4 years now, following are some sketches collected from "05 to "09 mostly drawn in bars and definitely drawn with drink. I plan to update this collection of seattle sketches as drawn.....

six arms

view from trapeze

view from trapeze with model...

the wild rose has a great couch in the front window, if your there pre-drama hours you can sit there and get a great view of pike/11th

sittin @ 6 arms lookin into the kitchen

bookcase at top pot on 14th

from the beautiful windows @ 6 arms

another view from trapeze below...

at the bar...

sittin inside the rose, again off hours, drawin the view and drinkin a brew

one of many organic models, that hang out in my creative space


saw this arrangemnt in wallingford recently



and this cute little tug passing thru the locks in ballard

a couple of shots from the seattle central library

Me, my grandpa cotie and uncle bobby. This had to be christmas 62,the photograph is so faded i'm glad i got it here before it's totally gone
me and my dad 62

and mom I believe in the backyard of maw-maws houseand maw-maw, my moms mom Hazel Corrine, I loved this lady she always seemed so strong to me, fierce. In the next photo is maw-maw and her mom my great grandmother, we called her ma mo, Miss Lillie Brassette Saucier
these lovely ladies are my dads sisters, Aunt Marie his younger sis and Aunt Nita his older sis

This is a crazy picture from Christmas 1964, this photo is in black and white but I can tell you that Mom, Monique and myself had matching red dresses on, I don't remember what color dads suit was but it was slick i'm sure. Moms eyebrows are scary I think my mom looked younger when she was 30-40 than she does here...it's the damn eyebrows

me sittin in the car lettin it all hang out

my grandpa ducombs, the quintessential grouch, the ever present flat top, my paw-paw, i once painted a small swastika on the bumper of his truck because i found out that he drowned an unwanted litter of farm kittens in a burlap sac...great memory huh

my sis Monique and me hammin it up here and there, I love the shots on the bug, a 1962 black VW Beetle mom and dad bought brand new off the showroom floor

love our pixie haircuts, we were not pigtail girls....too much work!


and the duds we're wearing in this next photo, hello! looks like a couple little boys to me

sorry little bro left you out of the others, you didn't come around til later but I love this old polaroid of the three of us I wonder what the hell you were laughin at

more photos of fall and rain on the hill, I love this time of year!

my dad drove one of these for a brief time when I was a kid, a Lincoln Continental with suicide doors. The car used to freak me out because it seemed so long and low to me then, I thought it would get high centered on the hilly roads of north louisiana.

my grl is workin a film festival this week, i got to sit in the unoccupied balcony of the egyptian theatre, kinda cool before the film goers were let in

Here are my first prints. I definitely will be playing with this more, maybe try some 2 color registration, 20 years in the printing biz could make me a bit of a nerd about this stuff

Trying hard to make time for art adventure, i'm cutting a linoleum block this part of the process is very meditative and i'm really enjoying it I also doodle quite a bit on grocery bag paper...non archival but rugged!

More leaves to bare

The mornings are getting chilly and the first autumn colors are creeping in