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Foothills of the Mother Lode, Memorial for Bill Judkins

An alter was assembled, complete with Dylan music for my Uncle Bill. The painting was done by my grandmother Alice Lolita Rhodes Judkins. Most of his ashes have been scattered in the place he loved most. I couldn't make it but my sister was there and she took this photo. "Today was a good day to scatter ashes". A movie I saw with my Uncle was Little Big Man and we loved the Indian Chief who said " it was a good day to die".

Tin Work

This was an exercise in outlining and color gradient . Originally I wanted it to look like  tattoo art but that's not exactly how it turned out. Some of the recycled tin came that way (Almond Roca tin) and other tin was partially faded by the sun. This is something I've been experimentling with.

Nevertheless I like the way it looks.

Another case where I thought I was done then decided to add more of something. I like it much better with the rose on top of the heart. The blank space was bugging me.

Wenatchee Valley Museum

  Diane, Ross and Marita and I drove to Wenatchee for the opening of the Recycled Art of the Icicle Prize Judges Show. Traffic wasn't bad and the car was full of lively conversation. Marita  brought freshly baked chocolate chip cookies still warm from the oven.

The Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center is housed in an old post office and is grand and quaint at the same time. Complete with an original WPA .

If you go there, don't miss a thing. Be sure to see the art and the apple catapult.

Marita admires a quilt by Ross Palmer Beecher made of 7-up cans and inner tubes.

  Diane sports one of her trash fascinaters made from  caution tape.

   

 

 

Ross checks out one of Marita's pieces in the cabinet , where the majority of my work is installed, front and center. It looks great.

 

 

 

 

It was a fun evening!

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