Closing

As other bloggers can probably tell you, keeping up with a blog can be tough. Life gets in the way. And when you have several blogs, it's almost impossible to do justice to them all.

With that in mind - I've given this a lot of thought, and my thinking is that I should probably close down this blog. I'm not really going away, though ..at least not right away ...hopefully.

Lately, most of my blogging time on blogspot has been devoted to my photo blog about feral cats. And anyone who likes cats really should visit The Feral Cat Rescue Project to see what's going on there. The project has turned into a calendar and at some point will be a book.

I'm still painting, though, and I want you to know that there are several places to see my work.

The older watercolors, pastels and oil paintings can be found at The Painter of Oregon online gallery. This represents maybe 1 percent of my work, but it is still a lot of paintings and I hope you'll visit there.

New works will probably be posted at chrisspagani.com, which I'm trying to bring back into a hub for a wider array of my work. It started out that way at first, then I started separating abstract from impressionist paintings - then I separated out photography. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but that's how I discovered that running 5 or 6 blogs is just too much to keep up with.

Cartoon work can still be found on blogger at the blogs specifically dedicated to Cartoon Cats and Caricatures, with additional retail-type work found at ToonZ.me ...

And finally, there is my photography/art gallery site, The Roadside Artist.

So please update your bookmarks! I hope I will see you there....

Hopefully even after I'm gone, my children will maintain some of my work online - but who knows? It's something I would wish for, anyway. I would like to at least be deluded into thinking that something I did meant something to someone.

Silly me.

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PS: The domain name OregonPainter.tv will be for sale, should some Oregon artist be interested. Just use my contact link.  :)

Boat Yard (Watercolor)

Even to this day, I'm surprised when these on the spot watercolor sketches actually turn into something. As impressionistic as it is, I still like the boat for sale...

The scrawled "Sale" written on the bow is about as unreadable in real life as it is here.

Garibaldi Oregon dry docks - Watercolor, 9x12

Abandoned Desert Homestead (Watercolor)

Small watercolor sketch of an eastern Oregon homestead that has seen better days. This one takes me back....

New Year's Resolutions

Winter House, watercolor

It's a new year and it's time for me to rethink and make some new resolutions.

I admit that I've allowed my work - as a documentary photographer - to take up all of my time. That's not fair to those who'd like to see more paintings. I am still painting, btw, but I haven't been blogging or posting. That needs to change.

So we'll make it a resolution to post more often. I certainly have the incentive to do so! I just need to make the time.

India Ink Sumi-Style Sketch, Oceanside and Seagull

Created with india ink and tradtional bamboo sumi-e brushes, this sketch of Oceanside Oregon rocks with a seagull was a fun experiment.  Having studied Sumi-e, I had been meaning to use those skills for something new and different.  This sketch is 9" x 12" on Strathmore watercolor paper.