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Springtime For Artists

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Post workshop paint rag wash day.

Another great two weeks of watercolor workshops! So much electricity, talent, and camaraderie condensed into 5 days.

It goes too fast and when it ends, Marlene and I feel like “empty nesters” (all over again).

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My Audiobook rendition of Searching for Alpha Centauri in a 64′ Chevy is now available on Spotify, Apple, Google Play, Amazon/Audible, Kobo/Walmart, and Barnes & Noble.

Creating an audiobook has given me an appreciation of professional narrators. “It ain’t easy” speaking clearly (really clearly), consistently, and with varying inflection on a long script. Add to that the surprising and numerous voice anomalies an audio recorder reveals.

Thank goodness for the audio editor!

It has taken some time. There was just no fast way to process 95,000 words (well). But, I’m pleased with the results.

Rust & Clay

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Easily, my favorite display at this year’s Bigfork Arts Festival.

Enthusiastic Artists

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Artists from all over North America converged here last week for a fun week of painting at our 2nd annual home/studio watercolor workshop.

The weather ended up being pretty darn good for mid-May in NW Montana.


Here’s Johnny!

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When we moved to our home in Montana, it had a cavernous deep 4-car garage with a very high ceiling. It could have been a basketball court. But sadly, for business purposes, the first thing I did was partition it off into smaller sections. This has bugged me ever since.

I loved that huge garage.

Now, 21-years later, our business mission has changed and a voice inside of me has pleaded, “tear down this wall!”

So today, I did.

Why was it this hideous bright green? Back when we filmed our PBS series, we actually used this wall as a “green screen.”