My main official reason for starting this myspace page is to promote
portantelesart.com. Click it and
see!!!
Of
course...it would also be nice to show some people my wife
Christine's Art Site because she's one of
the best abstract artists anywhere I think. I might be biased. See for yourself.
O.k.
....here's some blither about me:
I was
born in Port Angeles in 1959 before color was invented.
That's
probably why I love my wife's colorful art
so much nowadays.
It was
a simpler, care-free time as Crayola Crayons had only two colors to worry about.
When I
was in the first grade my crayon box had eight colors. We had to do a
self-portrait. My hair wasn't the yellow one
and it
was too light to be the brown one so I chose the one in the middle. The teacher
asked why I used green.
I later
learned I was red/green colorblind.
That
cool car at the bottom is a Karman Gia and it's parked in the 1200 block of East
Caroline back in 1960. See any color anywhere?
Nope.
None to be found.
I
scanned that ol 1960 picture, blew it way the hell up and noticed the little car
seat in the back where I used to sit.
It had
flimsy round tubular hooks that went over the seat and a thin plastic seatbelt
like you'd find on a high chair.
Way
before political correctness and excess government wormed into every nook and
cranny of our lives. I remember
going
beep, beep, vrooom. I believe I slobbered quite a bit too.
I used
to go down and play at the railroad tracks at the Rainier mill and take home
chunks of coal and sulfur I'd find along the
track
and burn it in my grandfather's brick fireplace. I was 37. I knew I had to get a
life. Actually I was eleven.
This
cul-de-sac of the Internet's information super highway is to network with people
interested in bolstering up the
appreciation and application (i.e. doing it) of ART in P.A..
Our
site.... www.portangelesart.com is
to promote an individual's art in whatever form (well, almost) and to give the
art aficionado a place to discover talent right in our own back yard.
Well,
don't look in my backyard unless plywood with slugs under it is art to you. But
perhaps other people's backyards.
The
idea to do portangelesart.com came after being disenchanted about driving to
Port Townsend (Port Townsend's cool but two hours away) to a gallery function
there. Why isn't Port Angeles doing more along the lines of what Port Townsend
is?
Then we
met Bob Stokes (see more about that on our site) and the lightbulb changed from
one of those yellow ones that repels bugs to one of those cool spiral ones that
burn brightly with less wattage. Or something like that.
I got my layout at Cleanupmyspace.com
