Show install has been completed, but I need to give it a bit of tweaking over the next couple of days. Call it the “Three Island Group” if you will. Toss in Vancouver Island, Hawaii islands of Oahu & Hawaii & Taiwan? What could go wrong? Nothing!
Scott Hemphill Featured Artist
Arts Alive Sep 6, 2025
You heard it first here, I will be featured Artist at “The Space” for September 6, 2025 Arts Alive. Show will consist of pen and ink sketches of my most recent trips around the world. Vancouver Island up close and personal See Vancouver the City, how different it is compared to the island. Hawaii, beach going on Oahu. Kilauea blowing up on the Big Island. Then a few weeks in Taiwan, forget about using silverware better get used to chop sticks! Great trip, lots of cool art from three very different places in the world. Show is free and we will have refreshments! Show runs up till November 2025.
Feedback was very simple, customer wanted to see an entire line of Hemp Cruisers. Not a problem there. Cars never shown are now in the lineup located in old town Eureka. Front row window viewing, free all dang day and night! Stop by and see for yourself. Take one home is even better. Once their gone, their gone. No others like them.
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.
Wow where does travel time go? It disappears so fast, you walk out the hotel door in the morning and next thing you know. What happened to the day it vaporized once again. This trip was a bit different. International yes but this time I had my own vehicle and drove everywhere ‘cept the ferry crossings. Started in Victoria and drove to the bitter northern end of Port Hardy. Port Alice and McNeill as well. Welcome to Bald Eagle country, unknown if their french bald eagles but they did have white heads. Tofino is a place everyone should see at least once. Long beach and beyond. Take the true Vancouver experience and head north. Shed the hustle and bustle of Nanaimo, its good but go north. Cournteny and Comox really liked. Now entering bald eagle country. Campbell River, Telegraph Cove a place lost in time. Port Alice amazingly beautiful, wow! Ferry system running from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert was only about once a week this time of year. So I back tracked south to Nanaimo, ferried over and spent three rainy days out of four in Vancouver, BC. Welcome big city life and everything that goes with it. Heard more sirens day and night than horns in DaNang. Finished up trip with a stop in Spokane and then Coure d’Alene, Idaho. Logged over three thousand road miles and tons of bird fun. Sketches? Off the charts, good run.
Week eleven now up and running, Willie the Wimp Cadillac Towing, sometimes we all need a lil towing persuasion. At this point I will be taking a short working holiday time to hit the sketch books. Show will resume upon return to homeport. Stay tuned. Most importantly thank you all for the continued support. It is appreciated.
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!
My second published book has hit the streets of Old Town Eureka, California! “Humboldt Bay” is chocked full of local Sea critters from around the local area. Even have a few boats got to have some salty stuff in there as well.
This runs side by side to my Eureka Coloring book as well which is of local Victorian architecture. Get yours today, each go for $20 a piece. Great deal in todays high cost of stuff. If you buy only a couple books a year, then these are two not to miss out on! Thank you for the continued support!
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!
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!
Week six and seven combined in this weeks road racing of old town Eureka. Stuff happens when you draw two draws on the same small page. Oh well productivity is paramount. You don’t accomplish anything if you don’t apply yourself. Make stuff happen now, every single day! Go ART!
These Cruisers will be up and running for window view for the next week. Stop on by
Humboldt Bay coloring book coming soon to an Art store near you! This book is completely different from the Eureka coloring book & will be full of sea type critters, flying ones too. Gotta have some boat action and don’t forget about our favorite Fisherman sculpture watching over Woodley island. Book should go on sale soon for $20 bucks. Go ART!
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.
This month for the second in a row the “Space” featured Artist is Georgia Long - Gravitas, oil on canvas, cold wax too. Hemp Cruisers has elbowed my way into the show as well. Week three of fourteen continues. Check out all the great Art. We are located at 620 2nd street, Old Town Eureka.
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
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!
Starting with car number 1 the show has begun! Hemp Cruisers now showing! Each cruiser will run for one week at the end of the week I will replace with next consecutive number. Strap yourself in for a fourteen week ride!
That’s right, you heard it right here on this grapevine. Humboldt Freedom will be making maiden rip roaring snorting ride this weekend. Saturday Arts Alive to be exact. For the record I “will not be the featured Artist” for Feb 2025. That great opportunity goes to my artist friend Georgia Long. She’s an amazing painter so make a stop. “The Space” located in Old Town Eureka, two doors down from Smugs pizza. Flying Copper Contraptions are still buzzing around, the Sharks are eyeballing all the scuba dudes diving. Food and drink provided, come hungry & thirsty my friends. Shark feeding commences 7pm sharp.
Humboldt Freedom is all gassed and ready to rip up the rubber. Do you do wheelies? HF does.
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!
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.
