exciting things this fall!

I haven't posted in a long while.  Here are the exciting things:

It's officially mushroom season. Yay!

I'm moving in a few weeks to the Arizona desert.  I'm excited/scared/happy/sad/stressed/relieved. More to come on that topic soon...

I just participated in a wonderful exhibit at Ghost Gallery with another very talented Seattle artist, Michelle Smith-Lewis, where our black and white botanical works were on show.  Michelle displayed some incredible tintypes and I included some of my floral macros.

I finally have my artwork up in downtown Tacoma!  Spaceworks Tacoma has generously given me two display windows in the old Woolworth's building on 11th and Broadway to feature some of my environmental portraiture within 3-d "artscapes".  I designed around the theme (and accompanying title) of "ghosts/dreams" and my fingers were sore for a very long time from hot glue burns and tying all those little bundles of sticks.  I'm very happy with how it all turned out.  The Tacoma News Tribune wrote a very nice piece on the windows.  They'll be on display until early December, so get down there and check them out.

Tacoma Neighborhood Gardens

My family takes evening walks together frequently.  I don't usually bring my camera, because when I do our walk inevitably takes twice as long as it should, and the kids complain.  :)  There's just so much to see in our beautiful North Tacoma neighborhood, I can't help myself!

Here are a few more recent shots of neighborhood garden flowers.

UPDATE: These images were chosen as part of the Ghost Gallery's exhibit in 2014,"Our Kingdom." aAlongside Michelle Smith-Lewis, an amazing Seattle area artist who works with tintypes, I got to showcase these botanical macro works. It was so much fun!  A bit thanks to the gallerist, Laurie!!!