A Community Composed: Sitka in Writing

Juried show I participated in, put together by Jackie at Sitka historical Society Museum :)



A selection of Journals, writings, poems and illustrations. By new and well known local artists. Popular writer John Straley below with a passage from "The Woman who married a Bear".


Colin Herforth, artist of all trades, ( Pa Fairweather Prints )
On left -pages from his kids book " Bight before Christmas "


Illustrators below, Colin Herforth, me and Dale DeArmond!


Beloved and famous illustrator Dale DeArmond below, I love her work ,it's very inspiring to me!


Me with my children's book illustrations on the right


Pages from Ollie the Otter, written by Maggie Jensen. Can't wait for this book to be published!


Thanks Jackie Fernandez for putting together this show! It was a honor to be involved :)

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Face painting at Homeskillet fest

Festival logo on my face! My friend Heather painted this !


Heather on the bottom right, and I in the middle , painted peoples faces for hours Friday and Saturday night at Homeskillet fest! Amazing variety of great live music and food in Sitka.
While listening to the bands I painted nonstop , butterfly wings, swirls, fish, hippos , spiderman, a few jelly fish and even a whale and more!
Painting kids and adults faces was a challenge but good practice to use confident lines and intuitive colors!
It was fun and everyone we painted left happy !



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Color me Magnets!

So fun drawing these sea creatures on scraps of watercolor paper and mat board . I put magnet tape on the backsides and created them for you to color in or paint! A new idea - for selling at the Sitka Farmers Market this summer along with some cards and prints ! I call them Color Me Magnets :)




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Work in progress......

Southeast Alaskan wolf painting I'm working on for fun, I'm also letting this painting evolve in color without doing any color studies ! It is so much harder than I thought but I'm trusting my intuition to make this painting shine -I will post again soon with more progress :)


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Fish T shirt Design

     Here are a few thumbnail sketches I drew, my client chose #10 for a kids T shirt design to sell at Sumner Brook Fish Farm in Ossipee, NH.

I created this on Adobe Photoshop, kinda wish I inked the fish by hand with pen and ink and then scanned it into the computer. Sometimes I think traditional media is faster! 

This is the final  2 color silkscreen design -a Rainbow Trout . 

Hope people snatch up this T shirt and other gifts when they visit the Fish Farm!

Remember Romeo the Wolf

 

This is the start of a series of portraits about Romeo the Wolf from Juneau, Alaska! I very heart warming  story, look it up on Google!

 

This is Zorra a doggy friend of mine, I have been her sitter time to time and made his painting as a gift for her Mom. She has inspired me to paint Romeo so here I go! Stay tuned to progress!

Highlights from my day job!

These are original Hand Painted Panels I designed at Fairweather Prints studio in Sitka, Alaska! This is the fun part of my job!
Each piece is a silkscreen design that I created by hand & on the computer. The black designs are silk screened on fabric and then I paint the colorful line work, like in Halibut & the last 2 images. The Raven and the Bear are Christie Jones designs that I spruced up with my hand painting!
 I also created this Bear wall hanging digitally, to show a sample of a fun project you can make with our Hand Painted panels!
You can find them for sale at Fairweather Gallery in Juneau, Alaska and on the web at http://fairweatherprints.com/?page=store  Enjoy!
Buy this unique hand made gift  today for that artist or crafter in your life!