JORDAAN

8 1/2" x 11"
Uniball pen, watercolor and Faber-Castell brushes in Canson sketchbook

DEAD BATTERY

11" x 17"
Uniball pen, Faber-Castell brushes and Kuretake Zig ink in Canson sketchbook

KEY BEND

8 1/2" x 23"
Uniball pen, watercolor and ink in Moleskine sketchbook

Eugene, Oregon has had a very active vaudeville community for many years. Lots of jugglers, fire eaters, magicians and sword swallowers. And then there is the Reverend Chumleigh. He's a bearded long haired original hippie day glo dude that performs the key bend trick. Or is it a trick?

At the show I attended he asked for a volunteer who had any keys in their pocket to step up onto the stage. I knew I wasn't a shill so up I went. He told me to take any key out of my pocket and hold it between my palms. I wisely chose the mailbox key instead of the car key and held it as instructed. He never touched the key and I was not hypnotized. He had the audience chant "Bend, Bend Bend" in unison for about 30 seconds. Lo and behold I had a bent key in my hands!

I'm told energy and physics can explain this.

OK, tell me how he did it

HAPPY HOUR

11 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Uniball pen and watercolor in Moleskine sketchbook
Several years ago Julie and I were sitting at a table in a restaurant across from the bar awaiting our food order. Several people were seated at the bar watching a sporting event on a television screen at the far end.
I was banging on about something or other when I noticed that Julie wasn't hearing me and had a strange look on her face. It was a look somewhere between humor and horror.
"What, I asked'?
"Over at the bar," she said.
I scanned the bar but didn't see what she was talking about
"The shirt".
When I turned and looked again I saw a man sitting there smoking a cigarette wearing a tee shirt two sizes too small. Hairy beer gut protruded from underneath the too small shirt. On the front of his shirt was posed the question: You Want Some Of This?
I wonder if it worked for him?

SUNFLOWER SELFIE

11" x 17"
Uniball pen, Faber-Castell brush pens and watercolor in Canson sketchbook

SUN DANCE VISION

11" x 17"
Mixed Media in Canson sketchbook

SACRED PIPE

11" x 17"
Pentel brush pen, watercolor and florescent acrylic in Canson sketchbook

BALDWIN SALOON, THE DALLES, OREGON

10" x 8 "
Uniball pen and watercolor in Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook

CHIEF YOUNG JOSEPH

10" x 8"
Uniball pen and Watercolor in Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook

ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT JOSEPH, OREGON

10" x 8 "
Watercolor, Uniball pen and white China marker in Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook
from Austin Barton sculpture

OLD CHIEF JOSEPH GRAVESITE, JOSEPH OREGON

8" x 10"
Watercolor and Uniball pen in Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook
"In 1926 2,500 people lined up to see the remains of tıwi·teq̉ıs or Old Chief Joseph interned at a new gravesite at the base of Lake Wallowa, overlooking the lands he once called home. Located in northeastern Oregon in the Nimiipuu or Nez Perce homeland, tıwi·teq̉ıs is the father of Chief Joseph, a leader during the conflict of 1877.
Ttıwi·teq̉ıs was born between 1785 and 1790 and grew to be a leader of the groups of Nimiipuu living in the Wallowa's. He signed the Treaty of 1855 but refused to put his mark to the Treaty of 1863. He died in 1870 but not before compelling his son to hold fast and defend his home land and people, "My son, never forget my dying words, This country holds your father's body. Never sell the bones of your father and mother." Unfortunately, under the threat of being evicted by the US Army, Young Joseph left the Wallowas in the spring of 1877 for the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho. When tıwi·teq̉ıs died, he was buried further down the valley but his grave was desecrated.
After the Nimiipuu left the valley in 1877, the land was settled and several prominent community leaders lobbied for tıwi·teq̉ıs to be reburied. In 1926 that happened. While the Nez Perce have been gone for over a century, the grave is a tangible link to a place that is still special to the Nez Perce."
National Park Service

Mascall Formation John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon

8" x 10"
Watercolor and Uniball pen in Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook

KAM WAH CHUNG & CO MUSEUM JOHN DAY OREGON

8" x 10"
Pentel brush pen in Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook

PAINTED HILLS JOHN DAY FOSSIL BEDS

8" x 10"
Watercolor in Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook

PAINTED HILLS JOHN DAY OREGON

8" x 10"
Watercolor in Stillman & Birn Beta sketchbook

FIGURE STUDY RED

14" x 11"
Watercolor and ink in Strathmore sketchbook

PORTRAIT OF SITTING BULL

18" x 24"
Ink and florescent acrylic on Bristol paper

FIGURE STUDY JAUNE

14" x 11"
Watercolor in Strathmore sketchbook

BROKEN BRIDGE

11" x 17"
Pentel brush pen, Kuretake Fude brush and Faber-Castel brushes in Canson sketchbook

MTA (after John Wentz)

11" x 17"
Fude brush and Faber-Castell brushes in Canson sketchbook