Blow Fish update

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Many new pieces as of late, mostly in the blow fish category, small, affordable and funny as all hell.  How can you pass up on a name such as Sawdust, come on, you gotta love the critter right?  Showing presently in Arcata - Ironside Gallery 9th & I and Humboldt Baykeeper, Old Town Eureka.  If you have a honkering for something fishy then these are the places to go.

Daily Draw

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Daily Draw yesterday consisted of going back to my old employer, the USCG.  Haven't been back to Station Humboldt Bay in years, felt good being around all those cool nautical things once again.  Weather was perfect, my new draw buddy Phil did the south side of the old station house, I took to the eastern side from the water.  Second rip was in Samoa, CA, reminded me somewhat of my visit to Nova Scotia, ramshakle buildings, many in need of a coat of paint.  Telephone poles/wires EVERYWHERE, at first my thought was to leave them out but thats what made it.

Four Draw - Great Day for a Draw

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Thanks to my buddy Phil today, we had breakfast,  then I challenged him to the elusive "15min Draw".  He was game, we busted out four new sketches, one over looking the cemetery of Ferndale.  Fernbridge, the only remaining bridge from ALL the NORCAL floods since install, over something like 100yrs.  Fortuna & Hydesville, need some hay?

Awesome day!  Great draw on all, capture today fore its gone tomorrow.

Cowboy Roy goes North

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That's right, Cowboy Roy, bigger than life grabbed a ride all bundled up in a makeshift rain poncho headed for Arcata, CA.  Ironside Gallery located at 900 9th, his present home for the next month.  Stop on by and say "Howdy" & drop 2 bits in his shot glass.

Revamped "Aquarium" is BACK!!!  All you fish lovers the school recently relocated back to Arcata after a good feed at Cafe Nooner in Old Town Eureka.  New on this show is the "Shark Birds", no BS on these boys plus a new and cool defined but moveable waterline.

Then of course theres "Cash Is King", "The Blastinator", "Wally's Secret Stash" & "Driftwood" three buildings, Bank, Saloon, Jail, you get the picture.

Arts Arcata Friday Oct 14, 2011  - 6-9PM, see you there.

Cheers ~ Scott

Shark Birds - Only sited in Humboldt Bay regions

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Introducing a new speicies of bird, the Shark Bird.  These birds came from a day kayaking on Humboldt Bay, no camera only visual memories.  From this I did a couple sketches of birds sitting on pilings sticking out of the water.  This morphed into what is now the legendary Shark Bird.  Only sited in Northern California's Humboldt Bay region no other sitings have been reported anywhere else in the world.  Upon further inspection one will note these birds have only one foot, and in some cases many have been seen sporting a "peg leg".  Scientists believe the birds fight amongst themselves and sometimes take a bite out of each other so to speak.

This new and unique speices will be making their home at the Ironside Gallery starting Oct 2011, stop by and take a gander.