#a creative process

For both June and July 2026 I’ll have a one-person fine art exhibit at Burnt Bridge Cellars in Vancouver, Washington. The opening party is June 5th. Details about the opening, the music, the food and how to make dinner reservations – here. Dropping by just to see my art, listen to music and have a glass of wine is an option too. My exhibit is titled Mundane Magic I’ve created a new art series…

I’ve been writing on my Substack – A.M. Sketching – each week and sharing my sketchbook pages and thoughts as I work on another fine art series. This week I shared a letter I wrote to our great nephew – in which I talk about adulting well and the use of mundane things we enjoy as a way to help get through difficulties within the sea of life. I also talked about mental condoms. You can see my…

I’m working on framing my fine art for upcoming exhibitions via the Caplan Art Designs Gallery this year. I’ve finished 13 new artworks to be shown, via the gallery, at the winery Burnt Bridge Cellars in June and July 2025 and these new ones along with more new art will be included in another exhibit later in October at the gallery location. As I’ve worked on the framing I’ve been thinking: the…

As I’ve worked on my Eggheads sculpture – hand painting heads on 12 solid wood eggs and bodies on 12 solid wood egg cups – I thought about how smart people are as essential to society as a eggs are to a working kitchen. In the background of my thinking was a question of how to display my finished 24 piece sculpture. My one-person exhibit at the Caplan Art Designs Gallery opens Oct 3 and the…

I’ve taken a rather inadvertent blogging break. My still-in-physical-therapy ankle is an ongoing life factor. Other things have been happening too with the results being that I’ve not had much time for blogging. But all the while I’ve been not-blogging I’ve been working a little along towards my upcoming one person exhibit at Caplan Art Designs which opens the first Thursday in October. My…

My fine art exhibit continues at Burnt Bridge Cellars via the Caplan Art Designs Gallery. I am continuing to create more fine art for later this year when my current exhibit moves to the Caplan Gallery to be exhibited there along with my new artworks. These new artworks will primarily be 3d sculptures. Here’s a look at what’s on my work table right now: half of a dozen 2 inch sized wooden eggs…

This painting that I began in my last post was inspired by one of my nephews who teased me, gently, about saying so often during our family domino games that I “need a minute to get my ducks in a row”. Apparantly I tend to focus on our family conversations during our games rather than on my dominos and which I’m going to play next – which amuses our nephew. So this last week I worked on… …and…