For Father’s Day today I have dug up the watercolor lesson I recorded with my father, Michael Spakowsky, a few years back. Some of you may remember it…

He came to visit me in Spokane, WA. We did some singing on the front porch and I talked him into letting me record him giving an art lesson.

You will not be able to find out much about him online. He lives on Vashon Island in Washington. He is well known in the Northwest but he doesn’t do much to promote himself. He mostly sells his paintings by word of mouth directly from his small house tucked back in the woods where he works and lives.

I hope to be able to offer some of his work from my new studio/gallery that I am working on…perhaps then I could introduce his art to folks online.

Please enjoy these videos. Happy Father’s Day!

Every once in awhile I like to feature other artists on this blog…

Dean Robertson is an old friend of mine. He is highly creative and, like me, has a love for taking what others throw away and turning it into something beautiful.

Here’s what Dean says:

Hey, this is Dean. My creations are handmade, inspired by the voices within the wood and bone. I hold the material and it speaks to me telling me how to reveal its hidden secrets. The wood I use is mostly reclaimed from the recycle bin at our school, and various firewood piles, and much of the bone comes from when I still lived in Alaska living the hunting and gathering life. Not even the bones get wasted with me…

. . . I first started carving wood and bone living deep in the forests of Alaska, where I learned the ways of the Wilds, and the Native Americans. I learned how to walk…I learned how to hear…I learned how to feel. It’s a different way of life…It is the beginnings of life…It is my reality…I will always walk…I will always share…

He also makes pretty things for your hair!

Find his work online at:

FORESTLIFE CREATIONS ETSY SHOP

and be his friend on:

FACEBOOK

If you don’t know KC, you are missing out. I just stopped by her blog and was touched by her latest post. CLICK HERE to check it out.

Thank you for sending this Lucie.

Maureen White just posted a new tutorial at SomethingToMake.com!  I am so happy to have her on board…she is such a wonderful art teacher. We are both thinking up more fun projects and tutorials for everyone so be sure to stop by now and then.