Artbear Studios

“We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.”

First…start the music 1968 was more than an odd time to be in either world. My immediate world was surfing, girls, and graduating from a nice (and only slightly repressive) Catholic high school. What awaited me was the near certainty of being drafted for Viet Nam with a very much more shortened lifespan than I […]

Just like on the From Paradise With Love And Rum site I’m giving away images I’ve created as wallpaper for your laptop, tablet, or desktop computers. They are all hi-rez 1920 x 1080 pixels (up to full 27 inch screen size) .PNG format. The first 50 people who join our email list, follow this blog, […]

   OK OK OK…So I let the work slip a tiny bit over the holidays. With that obvious gross understatement hanging there, I resolve that it’s a new year and time to knuckle back down and get that Making-a-Living thing going again. Go figure, the deadlines that were there before haven’t vanished and the only […]

I’m pretty sure it was the same for most of us, but growing up in Manhattan Beach every time the “mailman” came to our house he seemed to bring yet another bunch of catalogs and piles of Christmas cards. Mom would hang all the cards from ribbons or decorate the fireplace with them. We’d sit […]

The completely insane heat is on a break (probably weather union rules) and the thermometer is struggling to climb past the low 80’s. A sweet little breeze is playing with the curtains in the studio. It. carries the scent of salt water and promises of a beautiful Pacific Northwest Summer. These are the times, the […]

Suggested Listening If it does really all begin with letting go I am on my merry way again. The Activities Director at Edmonds Landing asked if I would join with another local artist for a small show. I knew the other artist (and even own one of her pieces) and knew she didn’t want to […]