Salmon Run got new paint job.

I entered four paintings in Renton Annual Art Show and this afternoon I went there to pick up paintings that are not selected for the show. To my big surprise just one was not accepted and that was already more then I expected.  Then something unbelievable happened, I found out that I got first prize. I am out of words, here is the painting, Spalted #1. This phone picture is not  the best, but art show is really good so go and see all the paintings live. Renton Community Center this Friday through Sunday and always lots of fun Renton River Days festival in the park near by.

 

 

When painting with watercolor top of the paper is usually supported in some way so it allows paint to flow toward you. If you want paint to flow any other direction you need to move the painting. Most of the time paper is stretched on some kind of waterproof surface (I use acrylic sheet)  so with larger formats becomes heavy and awkward. My plan was to try to modify camera tripod to support the painting and allow movement in all directions.. It looks like it will work.

I made a plans to convert two cribs my grandson is using into rocker cribs. I have seen people did converted cribs into rockers before, but not like this. This is affordable, easy to make and it works. With small modifications it can be used for any crib.

I built this corner raised garden box in the front yard where it gets a lot of sun. Right now we planted some vegetables we got from a friend and few alpine strawberry plants we bought on farmers market. Eventually it will be all alpine strawberries. I added a simple watering system.

With this wind mobile sculpture I tried a different design. I am also experimenting with different configurations to see how I can get the best movement.

New painting is completed (I think). I was experimenting with some new colors to see how they mix and flow. Here is the result, I hope you like it.

I also started work on an interesting picture frame. I have seen something like this on the web, don’t remember exactly, some German website I think.