Hawaii & Taiwan - June/July 2025 Think Hawaii is hot? Blast furnace in Taiwan

Great two trips rolled into one. Miss Katy graduated from high school in Honolulu. You can’t miss something this special then headed for the Big Island. Kilauea volcano blowing up, never seen something this amazing. Liquid rock being tossed out like nothing. Still going and even bigger! Daughter paid a Hawaii visit. Only request was to “go to the beach everyday” which we did, very nice. Different one each day. Big thanks to Bill & Stacey for the transport / lodging making it all possible. Don’t forget lost fin but umbrella good to go. Discussion came up, what is close to Hawaii? Hmm not much but much closer to Asia than the mainland. $550bucks for a one way to Taipei thru Japan. No problem. Location in Taipei couldn’t of planned any better. Metro drop for the blue line was right out the door of hotel. Getting around extremely easy once you figure out metro line colors. Taipei Main Station is where you can catch all kinds of trains going to all different places. Pick a place. Hungry? Food is everywhere and cheap, around $5-6bucks USD gets a very stuff your gut kinda meal. Save room with all that food intake, temps now a bit cooler and comfortable, upper 80’s okay. Evening walks in Ximending provide everything you imagine it is after dark. Good places are everywhere never got sick once. Entire city clean and very nice. Better watch your heat intake during the day. I’d do a 4-5hour out and about stuff starting around 9am. Duck in and work on sketches mid day 1-5 or till the sun ducks and hides for the day. Good stuff.

Big City Racing #10!

Holy heck how did that happen? Week ten of the most famous of “Hemp Cruisers” never ever seen in public till now. Get em before their gone, cuz once their gone their gone. Only one the only one. Original art that no one not even me can replicate. Get yours today!

Hemp Cruisers - The Nine Show #9 #9

This Cruiser like most works of Art take a life of their own. From the cool wavey curves on this build came the rest and kinda looks like a surf van of some sort, and that is okay too. #9 will be smoking the tires for one week, one week only. On deck is Dragster City #10, pure Mopar!

Ever wonder whose looking? At your stuff? How

Sometimes I wonder if people might be checking out my stuff. Unless people come up and tell you, which a few have in the past. Most of the time no one knows. When I was doing shows in Arcata, had my fish tank of hanging sharks and various fish. This was right across the street from Hensel hardware. Upon closer inspection of the big window outside revealed some interesting info. It was chock full of nose and forehead prints imprinted into the glass. That was our check of who was looking at stuff in the gallery. No other windows displaying art had these nose and forehead prints. Amazing the stuff you find!

Hemp Cruisers #5

Hemp Cruisers week Five continues! Time flies that fast. Car #5 up and running front window display for all your great curbside viewing, no admission charged. Free all day long, night too. Also did a quick change out and put in “My Whales” two copper whales swimming. This is from private collection and is not for sale. However I foresee a new copper whale coming to life.

Hemp Cruiser #3 now showing

Third week already and car #3 is up and running or should I say showing. Same cool window, same spot in old town. Arts Alive is this Saturday Mar 1, 2025

Hemp Cruiser #2 week 2 of fourteen week show, say that one five times fast!

Smell the burnt rubber all the way across the street to Fish & Game, old town Eureka. As promised the Hemp Cruiser run continues. With the Daytona 500 in the rear view this one is in the Front View! Act now don’t wait fore it may be too late and gone in 60 seconds!

The show must go on

Flying Copper Contraptions anyone? Yes their still out there flying around “The Space” in Old Town Eureka, 620 2nd to be exact. Yesterday I did a little massaging of the space and moved the Fly Boys up towards the front of the store. Perfect for window viewing and of course shopping! Next months featured artist will be Georgia Long, check her work out you will like. Enjoy!

Humboldt Freedom

Ideas that become reality - Humboldt Freedom the latest to reach that status, nice. Sometimes you gotta toot your own horn, toot toot this ones in the books, el finee! completo! Simple ideas soon morph into something more complex, let the piece take you where it needs to go. Spend the time to make it actually happen. Most importantly finish that bad dog cuz something unfinished is just unfinished. Make it happen.

Doing this build took me back to being a kid in Iowa growing up building car models with my brother, we’d paint em up make em look real. Fast forward now the same except I have to come up with the idea, make the parts and assemble, no big deal thats the fun part. Remember where you came from and you will go far.

2025 has arrived with a bang

Unfortunately it hasn’t been the best of weeks, buddies best friend seeing eye dog Releve unexpectedly died day before NYE, what a serious bummer. So I took a bit of down time to reflect but also to know this hound would of said “get your ass back to work” so I have been, slowly. “Humboldt Freedom” trike sculpture is close to completion but when you add a rider you add that much more time and effort. Let the piece decide where it goes, you will know when it’s time to say “when”. Enjoy the ride, 2025 has arrived!

Finish the year with a copper sculpture! Watch "Humboldt Freedom" be built from ground up

Idea was simple, build a 70’s style trike chopper, knucklehead engine. Figure out all the rest along the ride. Ordered race slicks and motorcycle kids toy tires for a perfect burn out kinda sculpture. Of course as all pieces they take a life of their own and this one has as well. A three belt drive system? Humboldt Belt Co. supplied all the necessary belts to make the “Humboldt Freedom” fly like the wind. Check out the “as we build” show. Build continues till finished. So check back in once in awhile and see the progress. Goal have this racer rolling by Christmas. Thanks for stopping by.

End of the year what to do?

The big rush of creating new artwork for “Featured Artist” always puts a foot in my backside. Get stuff done now today, do not wait for tomorrow! Looking forward to 2025 many things come to mind. Ferndale sketches are sighted in along with yet another world travel yet to be determined. In talking with a buddy yesterday the topic came up whether art is selling, my answer was simple, no. Just because my artwork does not sell does not mean that gives me a free pass to loaf the rest of my life. I have the natural born talent it would be sad for me not to pursue my art until I can no longer. I see many people with talent that they just waste, how sad. Get Motivated now! For tomorrow may never come. Art on my friends!

Two shows rolled into one. Flying Copper Contraptions & Europe sketches 2024

Had the great opportunity to be the featured Artist for the third month straight so what to do? Get busy and make Art. So I set out and with a buddy who wanted to learn the coppersmith trade. Mike showed up everyday for three weeks, job still incomplete. Lots of learning was had, a humbling expeirence. He said “you make it look easy, which it is not”. Over 100 hours combined effort to pull this one off. Base company is Talon Air with the airplane named Fish Hawk 5 for five props and five screw ups by Mike. Enjoy the ride! Arts Alive Dec 7, 2024

"Taking it to the streets - Europe 2024"

Show will be showing until the end of 2024. “The Space” located at 620 2nd street old town Eureka is open M-Sat so stop on by when it’s good for you. Get lost in Europe even if only for a short moment. We all need a nice break once in awhile.

Almost blew myself up!

Ever have one of those “Oh Shit” happenings? Almost blew myself up the other day. Working away like always, cutting a piece of steel and hear this “Pop” noise. What the heck was that? Look over to my acetylene tank which has flames all around the intake fitting to a full tank of gas! Yikes, holy moly!!! I quickly extinguished flame which totally surrounded the screw on fitting. Holy crap, lots of deep quick breathes scared shitless. What just happened? Had to get back on the horse and figure this problem out now, not tomorrow. Fired up the torch once again, no problem with run times shut off go back to cutting steel, POP! Once again flames surround the neck portion of acetylene tank, Not again! Extinguished the flames a second time with hands, luckily, I had gloves on. Okay that’s twice, time to stand down and figure out the cause. Problem was old torch handle, original from my beginnings which has no flash arresters. Obviously, the torch had fire still left in it and traveled back up the source of gas to tank neck fitting. It scared me so bad my thoughts were “maybe it’s time to put the torch aside” but imagine your most used tool for over 35years no more because you’re scared? Nope not happening fix the problem and get over it. I swapped out torch handle with a second torch I have that does have the flash arresters and completed an entire afternoon of controlled burns. Back to Operations Normal. This has never happened in over 35 years of burning copper. Wow! Live everyday as if it’s your last cuz one day it will be. ART ON!!!

Story and a Sketch

Been a short New York minute since my last update. Story and a Sketch came out of nowhere like all good ideas do. How many times as an Artist have I been asked or any other artist for that matter. “Where did the idea come from”. In this case pretty simple, I take from my travel journals, sketches and put together this new fantastic idea! You as the great Art consumers you are like to take your info like your morning cup o joe. You take in what you read and like to look at cool drawings or stuff whatever it may be. So I have provided you a couple cool ways of you gathering all my stuff the way you like it. If you have the need for the Kinestetic, I have lots of sculpture too, but thats another story. These are my personal ones for you to enjoy.

Humboldt Series Part 2 - Arcata Check it Out!

Arts Alive is alive and kicking, tonight same place same time, a bit cold and rainy out shouldn’t stop one from having fun! 620 2nd street Old Town Eureka 6-9pm.

Humboldt Series Part 2 - the draw continues Arcata this draw

Crappy WX continues to fill the redwoods with plenty of rain water to drink, they are a thirsty bunch. Am tired of the constant rain so curb my artistic abilities to the daily draw. Bair House located up on the hill in Arcata classic Queen Anne architecture built in 1888. Notice the similarities of this draw and the Pythian Castle located just down a few blocks. Both have the witches hat roof lines. Older different time period from now. Very cool but tough draws.

Arts Alive - Dec 2022

Time sure flies when were doing what we want to be doing and not what someone else thinks we should be doing. Big thanks to Monica & Liam owners of Art Center Space Old Town Eureka. We are given opportunities in life, sometimes we take them sometimes we don't. This one I did and WOW! Stop down for Arts Alive if in town, but if you missed it show will be up and running for entire month of December 2022. Thanks for everyones support. Scott