Finally getting close with this one, first painting of the year. CalPortland Cement Terminal beneath the Fremont Bridge, on the east bank of the Willamette River, Portland, Oregon. c. 2010. Oil on canvas. 18” x 24”

The Save Act expired with the 118th Congress because it was too flawed for the Senate to consider it. Now in the 119th both houses are pushing variations. The Senate has added to the original demands for proof of citizenship that the voter ID include a photo.

Voter Fraud/Voter ID Voter fraud in the United States is exceedingly rare. After decades of scrutiny, hundreds of millions of ballots cast, and repeated investigations by courts and election officials from both parties, there is no evidence it has ever altered the outcome of a major election.

Now playing.

Voter ID polls well because people picture a simple, in-person ID check. That’s not what the SAVE Act primarily affects. SAVE would tie new ID requirements to registration and mail voting, not just Election Day voting.

One under-discussed risk in the SAVE Act debate: What happens if signature-only verification for mail voters is no longer treated as sufficient? Many mail-voting states rely on signatures as the continuity check that keeps voters active without repeated in-person steps.

🧵 Most voter ID polling asks about “ID” in the abstract. It does not ask whether voters would need to pay fees, gather documents, wait weeks, or show up in person to comply. Those details matter — and they’re missing from the polls.

It’s been a while but I managed to get this close to done. East Side industrial area and the Fremont Bridge. Oil on panel, 12” x 24”

The big feud between dumb and dumber is the greatest gift to MSM since Watergate but they’re too broken to make it happen.

Fun fact: I was once commissioned for a bunch of gourd bottles/wine jars for drunken kung-fu form. That was fun. #ceramics #pottery #kungfu

Georgia Pacific Paper Mill (now decommissioned) Camas, WA Oil on linen, 16” x 24” #oilpainting #industriallandscapepainting #builtenvironment

From the Maryhill Collection William S. Hook Highway Work Study 1, 2017 Watercolor on Paper

From the Maryhill collection. Rowena Bridge Jim Shull, 2006 Acrylic on linen

From the Maryhill Collection Lynn Mehta Biggs Junction, 2022 Oil on canvas

Wind turbines, river barges, Cascade mountains, and I’m on a boat! Life in the PNW.

My chickens have a $75 dedicated waterer in the coop but they’ll only drink from the bird bath.

Spring and sunshine has brought a lot of distraction and yard work along with it. This one’s taking more time than usual so here’s a small detail of a new WIP.

1964 Fender Jazzmaster with some wear on the back but otherwise very clean. Thinking about selling it.

New work Centennial Mills, Portland OR 16” x 24” oil on linen panel

Pelican on the pier #photogaphy Z5

Tatters, Temecula CA Z5 #photography

Oceanside Pier, Feb 2024 Z5 #photography

Reference photo. Portland Cement Plant Pentax 6x7, Tri X 1998

Water Taxi, Kolkata, West Bengal 2001

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 2001. Pentax 6x7 #photography

Camas Paper Mill, 2008 #photography

Water, 1945 Charles Sheeler

WIP Barrel Racer I’ve learned a lot from this piece. Primarily that I suck at figures and especially faces in particular. Time to get down to basics.

Detail

This $15 thrift store Dutch oven has revolutionized bread day around here. The 1 kilogram single loaf is less work and makes for a better size slice.

Market season is beginning so I get to play around a little making larger forms to catch the interest of passers by. Stuff like this doesn’t fly off the shelves but it adds a little fun to the production process.

20 paintings etc….

Old truck, Clarno, John Day river Oregon. Oil/canvas 16” x 20”

Seascape from a hotel room in Gearhart, Oregon Oil, canvas 12” x 24”

My first attempt at landscape. Westbound approach to Columbia Gorge on SR 14 Oil on board, 8” x 10”

Got it to here, going to let it sit a while. Blue Star Northwest Cement Oil on panel, 24” x 30”

Baking dishes made with extruded clay from handbuilt dies. #handmadepottery #slabbuilt #extrudedckay

I make bread a couple days a week. Here’s a sourdough boulle and a sandwich loaf baked in this ceramic cloche I made a few years ago.

Elevators at Pier 8, Harbor Island SW Seattle Oil on panel, 8” x 10”

WIP Northern Junk Building and the Johnson St Bridge in Victoria BC. From a reference photo I took in the late nineties. The bridge is now gone but the buildings C 1860 remain. Oil on linen panel. 9” x 16”

Got it done! Back to the paints. #handmadepottery

This larger WIP is taking way too long, think I’m going to put it away for a while get back to smaller studies.

Trying to carve out time to paint but the orders keep rolling in. #productionpottery #makehay

Detail from an older work.

Detail from an earlier work. #oilpainting #industriallandscape

Elevator, NE Oregon Oil on canvas 16” x 20”

Feb 24 is designated official Twin Peaks Day by folks in the region of its location filming. In reverence I’m reposting my painting of the Snowqualamie sawmill known in the series as Packards Mill. (No longer extant)

Depot, Vancouver Washington Oil on canvas 16” x 20”