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We may be small, but damnit, I'm determined to get one going here in Eastern Oregon.
We'll most likely get a caravan going and drive around to the different spots in the valley.

For more info, contact Christopher at Cold Coffee Media/ Satellite Gallery or
or Amber at ambmaclean@mac.com

Hi Carol! Beautiful sketches! Thanks so much for meeting up with me in Portland. I really enjoyed meeting everyone and sharing a little caffiene-injected sketch at the very cool Powell's bookstore cafe. It was really comforting to meet other like minded artists--any excuse to drive west of the Casca...

gracias!

Hi all,
Thought I'd share a detail from my latest painting. I'm completely inspired by the colors of this area so I'm working on a canvas line for the first time in several years. Toto, we're not in Sf anymore...

thanks e....ps. i stand corrected on my nerd music trivia. "let it rip" is actually "let it whip" by the DAZZ band ( a conjunction of jazz and disco, btw) consisting of former members of the GAP band...oh, my bad.

thanks emma! it's hard for me to sit and work on one drawing like this since i love thumbnails--but i'm forcing myself to try it. i'm completely dependent on gum erasers with draws like this!

A sketch I did this morning while procrastinating on starting my work.

last one! Wow, almost looks like you did it with one line.

Nice crisp style. Is it Illustrator? You should check out Paul Madonna's comic "All Over Coffee".

Superb fast draws, and with watercolor to boot. I did something like this once for a Comic convention and passed it out. It was exhausting, but fun.

Walnut Creek, California is a great place to sketch. This is from a few years ago--maybe 2003--when it seemed like topiary bushes suddenly sprung up all over the place.

-A

...always gets me inspired--the king of social satire. I also really, really like Rembrandt's ink landcapes. They were done swiftly but with complete confidence. Lastly, there's a master painter from China named Qi Baishi. His stuff always gets me going.

Hey Ms. P and All, Nice to see your sketches up here. Everyone's stuff looks great. Love the wobbly milk crate and the person in shade under the ledge. I wish I could've been in town to drawl. Maybe it'll inspire me to finally visit Alcatraz after living in SF for 30 something years...

Cheers,
Amber

http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/2985/sketchcrawlfordanamber053jr.jpg D'oh! Sorry about the first huge file post. It was way huge. Here's a smaller file....This is a late entry for our friend Dan. I was on a road trip in Boise, Idaho. I think we saw the entire population of artists in the area--a...