Well it's been a while since I rapped at ya, in the words of my favorite Onion contributor, Mr. Jim Anchower. It's been a busy couple of months, to say the least. Plenty of projects, quality time with the family, and time well spent riding up at Mt. Bachelor. I'm planning on a much needed revamp of the site pretty soon, but in the meantime here's some highlights of the last few months courtesy of my slick new Canon Rebel Xti. It's a sweet little SLR camera with a 10 megapixel capability. I've missed shooting with an SLR camera, so it's been a lot of fun. Enjoy... and Happy New Year!

01. Big Eddy

02. Big Eddy

03. Ice drops

04. Benham Falls

05. Benham Falls

06. Benham Falls

07. Tumalo Mtn Sunrise

08. Jenny shreddin

09. Lucy (dog #2)

A little overdue on updates lately, but certainly not because there hasn't been much to report. On the contrary, it's been a whirlwind month. We finished up all the house projects we wanted to get done this summer, including painting the exterior of the house, stripping and installing a new roof, plumbing and installing irrigation, and putting in some grass.

We're real proud of Jen this month. She caught her very first steelhead out on the Deschutes, and ran her first marathon last Sunday in Portland. She ran a good strong race, finished with a time of 3:36, and qualified for the Boston Marathon! Looks like we might be headed out to the east coast in April...

Next on the agenda is a bit of illustration, a dash of steelhead fishing, and a little side trip next week to Los Cabos.

One last item of note:

I finally got a chance to put together a slideshow of the OKOK show. Check it out here, and all the paintings are now up in the painting section here.

It's getting to be the end of the summer already and I'm getting a little behind on my updates. First off, the show went really well. OkOk has put together a beautiful gallery space, and it was a real pleasure to fill it up with the fruits of my labor these last few months. The mural came together nicely after a long day of painting and okok put together a neat little time lapse video of the whole things. Check it out here.

I'll be putting together a gallery slideshow soon, so stay tuned for some photos.

Thanks again to Charlie, Amanda, Grant, Joe, Nick and Sally, and all the fine folks that helped out and made it a memorable evening for me.

It's back to the day job now, and I hope to be painting soon, but it may be a month or so before I have a chance to put brush to canvas.

I took a couple of fun trips this summer, and I finally got around to putting pages together for them. Click on the photo to see more.

It's getting to be about that time, show time that is. Been putting in some long hours these last few months, working out the kinks with a good long run of new paintings and drawings. Click on the above image for some basic info. More info and directions to the gallery can be found here. Hope to see you there!

My sister is celebrating her 26th today in Iceland. This is an old photo from a St. Helens climb we did a few years ago, before it started smoking again. Happy birthday sis, we sure do miss ya.

The Seagle is on the streets! Currently touring the lower 48, with no air conditioning and a very large trailer.

The good folks at Nemo design have been art directing me on the NKE 6.0 campaign for the past nine months or so and this "car" was one of the props we came up with. I drew it into a few ads, had some fun with the ridiculousness of it and daydreamed a little about how wild it would be to see one of these in action. A couple of months later Chris over at Nemo gave a call to let me know it was going to be built, and 4 weeks later, it was done. Amazing. Here's some photos with similar drawings:

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It was built by Turtle Transit, and more photos of the buildup can be seen on their website. Another writeup about it here.

The latest Bond Street Series beer from Deschutes brewery hits the pub on Tuesday June 27th. You should be able to find it in select stores in the 22oz bottle.

Happy Birthday to Jenny! Shaping up to be a good weekend. We've got lots of friends coming out to Bend for the 10 year Sisters High School reunion, rumors of a tubing extravaganza on the Deschutes, and lots of sunshine. Been cranking on the house, so many projects, so much to do. Got er just about painted, built some flower beds, put a new window in the office. Working on some good stuff.

Just posted some new work to the site. Most of this is from last year, some pretty recent. Some in the Client section, some in the Illustration section.

Heading out to Portland this weekend for a little shindig at the Hecklewood headquarters. Check out the flyer here. Mr. Huff had some posters and tees printed up, and promises of PBR 40s should bring plenty of sophisticated art types. Poster artwork here and a closeup here.

I snuck in a little three day trip on the Deschutes last weekend with BC and Eddie. Stoneflies were out in force and good times were had by all. Trout Creek to Maupin. My maiden voyage rowing this stretch. Here's some photos:

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The adicolor site is up and running with product in stores and available. I spent the better part of last summer and fall working on many of these apparel pieces.

On the homefront, it was another fine Memorial Day weekend packed full of activity. We went to see Beck and the Decemberists, worked on lots of house projects, saw some good friends, and tried to climb the south sister. We had some rather bad timing on the last one. Pretty close to a foot of fresh snow up at treeline, and visibility was none too good. We should have waited a day as it dawned bluebird and gorgeous Monday, but that's the way it goes.

On another note, my sister has been sending me some fine shots from her current remote location in Iceland. She's working an engineering job on the coast somewhere, learning her trade and putting that hard earned civil engineering degree to good use. I'm so damned proud of her. There has been some interest in her part on a return trip, perhaps a 12 month stint, and I may have to visit if that happens. Here's a few photos she's sent me:

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I went to the bookstore the other day. Picked up a Vapors and when I flipped it over, I was surprised to see this. It's the first NKE 6.0 ad I've come across. Nemo gave me the heads up about a few more, and I'll post them as I find them.

Well, I'm back. Sorry for the long hiatus. It's been quite a month. Pretty much chained to the desk since I got back from Montana. So many good projects. Two new beer labels for Deschutes. Broken Top Bock is in stores now and The 18th Anniversary Pilsner is up next. Round two of the NKE 6.0 print, TV, and retail campaign has been in full swing. WIne labels, book illustrations, adidas patterns and some hand drawn maps were also finished recently.

I've got some pictures from the Montana trip coming up, and I'll try to be more on top of things for a while.

Last weekend was the annual TTS shredfest/camping trip at HooDoo. We built some big jumps, hit some little ones, and had a fine night of camping and hanging out at the gravel pits. I didn't get much in the way of photos, but here's a couple:

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