Second sketch for #doodlewashAugust2026 art challenge. Short video on my YouTube channel: Video link youtu.be/h1cF4JcPUEI

My first sketch in the #doodlewashAugust2026 art challenge. Day 1 prompt: “Duck”. Short video on my YouTube channel. Video link youtu.be/yp1YWHiWNzc

Pic of Wren and Puzzle, since not sure thumbnail of vid I just posted shows. Remembering my good boy on a little outing to paint at the park. youtu.be/jaNLtEgtmMo

Just took this of a Red-breasted Sapsucker (?? I think?). Best pic of it I’ve managed so far. #speckled #birds #usbirds #PacificNorthwest Tacoma WA

Steller’s Jay and #speckled Spotted Towhee. Pics for now are with iPad thru window, am shopping for a digital camera. #birds #usbirds #PNWbirds Tacoma WA

A couple of Canada geese that‘ve been hanging around the neighbor’s pond, taking a stroll in our yard. #addBirder

Here’s a new video on the first stages of a dog portrait I’m working on. Video link youtu.be/IJ9i1vAvOxg

Hmm, might make a “WORST PRESIDENT EVER!” sign for No Kings 3, complete with orange turd drawing.

A small oil sketch I did in the yard to practice painting “alla prima” - start to finish in one session* #blueskyartshow #wood (*which is very different from how I paint dog portraits)

Video link youtu.be/jjGijDZGn7U New episode on painting this dog portrait on my YouTube channel.

An ink sketch drawn from life of “Mouse” who had #One eye. Seems it’s okay to use prior images for #BlueskyArtShow (?) so used this from the first year I did #Inktober in 2017. RIP my sweet boy.

If this family pic was today, I can see my immigrant grandmother (right) being deported and my mother (left) losing her birthright citizenship and deported. What would happen to my brother and me? My grandma lived in 3 centuries (1899 to 2000), and I think she was awesome.

Finished this portrait of Harlow (watercolor, colored pencil). Drawing her sweet face was a nice counterpoint to the just-nuts-news of my podcast listening today.

Rally goers ranged from in strollers to kids to teens to adults to boomers to silent generation at the #NoKings I went to (one of several in Tacoma WA). Plenty of inflatables, other costumes, dogs, creative signs. Very NOT the “dangerous terrorists” of the GOP spiel.

Wow he is really letting his crazy show. Having had a psychotic father (paranoid schizophrenia medical discharge from the AF) it’s not fun wondering what’s next from the unstable orange moron.

We had quite a few fun inflatables in Tacoma WA too! The Portland OR frog really started something!

A little rain didn’t dampen things at one of several Tacoma WA #NoKings

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social One of several #NoKings in Tacoma, Washington.

One of several #NoKings in Tacoma, Washington today. Inflatables galore (including a Portland 🐸), other costumes, plenty of kids, dogs, and creative signs💙!

Awesome watching pprotests around the world! Pumped to go to an afternoon rally here on the west coast in a couple hours. New sign and t-shirt for the occasion:

Here’s Abner, the third of three dogs I drew for #relax theme of #blueskyartshow, done in ink in observance of #inktober

A jack ‘o lantern for #glow #blueskyartshow using ink again to observe #inktober.

Rosco is the second of three dog “models” for #relax #blueskyartshow. Done in pen-and-ink in observance of #inktober. Next will be Abner...

Dogs know how to #Relax. Gus in pen-and-ink (also will be drawing Rosco and Abner in ink for #Inktober). #BlueSkyArtShow

A sketch of taking some dogs on a rambling walk down a two track road through fields and evergreens. #BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad watercolor, ink, colored pencil

Different #Angles being made by the long legs of walking cranes was my idea this week for #BlueSkyArtShow. Watercolor, pen-and-ink.

I did a small oil painting, trying a sort of folksy Wysocki-ish style, for the #Home theme. Home wouldn’t be complete without some dogs playing in the yard. #BlueSkyArtShow

For the #Summer theme, thought of this scene so I could include a dog. #BlueSkyArtShow watercolor and colored pencil.

I tried to create #Shiny eyes and nose in this pen-and-ink of my dog Wren. #BlueSkyArtShow