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


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


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


Grays Harbor Lighthouse
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...


Another Octo....
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...


It's Turtle Time!!!
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...


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


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


Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?
I have not done a self-portrait since college, when my professor, Fr Sullivan, was unimpressed with my first attempt. He was right; it...


Meet Karla Shuster
I go through periods during which I consume more art by fellow artists than I produce myself. I LOVE ART! It's been a few years...


Sing. Sing. Sing!
How can you resist leafing through a mid-century Monkey Wards catalog? Its pages were used for the background of this action-packed image...
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