Avocets Afire 16"X8" on stretched gallery-wrapped canvas. In-progress photo of a work recently accepted for the Grays Harbor Shorebird...

I found an old canvas that had a painting I'd abandoned when it just wasn't working. So I painted/gessoed over it, and had a do-over,...

[24"x20" Mixed Media Collage] Yet another that I recently finished after my nursing home hiatus. This sea turtle makes use of collage...

Octopus Cacaphony (20"x24 mixed media collage) I've been finishing projects I had started before my nursing home stay. This one uses...

Who does not love light houses? They're the stuff of lore going back to ancient times, coastal phalli protecting seamen. We have one just...

Much of my last year has been spent in ill health, at one point having to spend a few months in a care facility. It was touch and go, and...

I'm gearing up to work on my next octopus-free project: my stop-motion animation Cat Scouts movie, "Catnip Kingdom," an homage to Wes...

For the Ocean Shores Art Splash Tour, I used my tiki hut vs. my studio to display my recent work --- it provided room to stretch out,...

I sort of took a week off after the Art Splash studio tour. I hadn't planned on making any art this week, but made I did, finishing a...

Local artists are madly scrambling to produce art in preparation for the Art Splash Studio Tour in Ocean Shores WA on August 12/13. That...

My most recently completed cat portrait is of Cat Scout Raz. Raz lived in Florida, not far from Cape Canaveral. He was a Cat Scout for...

Another image for the Deck Tails book. This note is from Brad the Black-headed Grosbeak. Male grosbeaks are striking birds. I remember...

This week I moved from an octopus series to a sea turtle series. Who can look at new hatchlings scrambling from their nests to meet the...

I finished the portrait of Henry David. It's 8x10 on canvas, mixed media with torn paper collage and acrylic. The background collage...

A project of mine that's been percolating for ever so long is "Deck Tails," a book chronicling my wild life with wildlife. It all started...

Steeped in octopus imagery, I walked into a hotel (the Kimpton Palladian in Seattle) yesterday to find an extraordinary art installation...

This was a challenge. It was a chance to practice making a repeatable pattern. But man, it takes forever to make all those marks, and...

Just started a mixed media torn paper collage and acrylic painting of Henry David, a Virginia cat who went to The Bridge recently. His...

I'm finishing the last of my current octopus series this week. This is another behemoth: 36"x24" mixed media on stretched canvas. In...

Caitlyn Stewart is a Maryland artist who also has a few octopi in her portfolio. I've taken a deep dive into octoart to observe how other...