…and I was just recovering from the balloons when Bru arrived with a box from LeeAnn…SOLIDS! All shirts…I had fun folding them and got an idea for the new quilt!
Author: bonniehull
Bonnie Hull is a painter. Transplanted from the urban mid-west, she works in Oregon's capital city living in a mid-19th century house. Studio, garden, quilting, coffee, preservation, the Oregon art world are among her topics.
MARDI GRAS!!!???
I LOVE surprises, and mystery surprises are even better…check out what was on our front door yesterday…???! WOW!!! Thank you, whoever you might be!!!!
Another House Project…
Let’s take a very brief breather from the art world (not for long though…next up a visit to Tom Cramer’s studio…) to see how Zach and Ashton’s house came out (BEFORE the landscaping…). When Zach bought the house it looked like this and then last fall the work started on the project of raising the […]
Henk Pander on the McCall Portrait…
An intrepid band of the general public met today at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to watch a video made in 2002 about Henk Pander and the painting of his 1982 portrait of Governor Tom McCall, and then to take walk over to the State Capitol Building to look at the painting. We were […]
Dorathy Bruce Rediscovered…
The wealth of art and artists in Oregon amazes. It is deep and multifaceted, and includes many generations of people making things of beauty. In a way our lives of late have been like a treasure hunt…one artist discovered (Rex Amos) leads to another (Matt Glavin) and…to another. In this case Dorathy Bruce, born near […]
The OTHER Thing in Tillamook…
Being a quilter I was anxious to visit the Latimer Quilt & Textile Center in Tillamook, so after we saw the murals we went out to the center, and though they offer groups and classes in weaving and spinning as well (one lady was actually carding and spinning the cotton from pill bottles…creative reuse!!!), we […]
Tillamook Murals…
On our way down from Cannon Beach the other day we stopped in Tillamook to find these murals by Oregon muralist Lucia Wiley. First in the post office is this 1943 mural about Captain Gray’s 1788 landing on the Oregon coast. Wiley was born in Tillamook in 1906…a third generation Tillamooker. This post office mural […]
SNOW!!!
On the way home from the beach the other day it looked like this…what we hope is the last blast of winter…
LIVING THE CREATIVE LIFE: MATT GLAVIN
We visited the studio of Rex Amos on Monday (see previous post) and in addition to Rex’s work, we saw the work of painter Matt Glavin…studio-mate and long-time friend of Rex. Matt (Portland/Berkeley/Cannon Beach) paints in acrylic, and for years has brought 20-24 paintings every 6 months to Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA where they […]
Living the Creative Life: Rex Amos
Our trip to Cannon Beach was all business, that turned out to be all fun too. We were meeting Rex and Diane Amos, and Roger was to make a visit to Rex’s studio to see what was on hand. As often happens, I get the fun of going along. Rex lived and worked in Portland […]
On The Way 