Aaron Crayne has selection of new works hanging at the Pioneer Square Starbucks in Seattle WA now through the end of July, 2008.

Pioneer Square
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102 First Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98104

*Images of the show*

Aaron Crayne has selected a small series of my haystack paintings on view at the Broadway Market, the work will be available for viewing April 12 through May 31, 2008.

Broadway Market
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401 Broadway E
Seattle, WA 98102

*Images of the show*

Two of Aaron’s paintings were chosen to be shown in the annual juried exhibition at the Allied Arts Association in Richland WA.

Exhibition starts April 01, 2008 through May 02, 2008.

Allied Arts
89 Lee Blvd
Richland WA 99352
(509) 943-9815

**The two paintings**

**update**

at the exhibition

I will be showing a series of haystack paintings at the Broadway Market, the work will be available for viewing starting April 12, 2008.

Broadway Market
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401 Broadway E
Seattle, WA 98102

Lets start by stating a general update of the last six months. As some of you may know we are now on the west coast living in Seattle. We had a good offer in Seattle so we took the opportunity and moved out west. For Karla it is a move to a new area, one that will hopefully become home. For me, it is a move back home, not the Seattle are as home, but the Pacific Northwest is home. Over the last little bit of fall and this winter we have been digging, moving into new apartments, starting new work, working on art projects, grants and exhibition opportunities.

I am now in Eastern Washington on a painting trip, with the hopes of getting a good start on new work, sketches, water color paintings and oil paintings. I am also doing some video and photo work on a documentary project. Hopefully this will be a fun filled week and half. I got here a couple of days ago on Monday night.

Yesterday was spent getting materials and supplies gathered and running a few errands around my home town. Plus it was very windy here in the area, it had rained Monday night and anybody familiar with the Tri-Cities knows that after it rains the wind blows, and it was very windy yesterday. Windy to the point that even with 20- 30 lbs of weights added to the back of my easel it still takes off like a kite. So it was good that I had errands to do.

Today, I spent all morning and part of the afternoon near Jump Off Joe (on the hills behind Kennewick) where the windmills are. I did a few sketches and a couple of water colors (see my next post for a picture of one of the sketches). I was starting to set up to paint, but my French easel broke and I left the other easel back where I am staying. So I returned and spent the other half of the afternoon fixing the easel. So tomorrow morning I am going to head back out there and try and do some painting. I need to remember my winter coat as well, I forgot to take it with me because the temp. in town is not to bad, but up on the hills in the wind is very cold, there is still snow on the ground up there. An quilted flannel isn’t enough protection from the wind an cold, luckily I had a pair of gloves in my painting bag.

I am also hoping to use this as an opportunity to start a semi-daily posting of paintings, drawings and sketches. Something new each day. Check out the daily tag for posts & updates.

The previous week I was in my home town of Pasco, WA doing a weeklong painting sabbatical. Not much of a sabbatical, but I did get some good painting done. I also had a nice visit with family.

I have a show coming up this spring, and I really needed to start some new pieces to be in the show. The show will be in Walla Walla, WA and I wanted to show some new work from the Eastern Washington region. So I went home for a week, I did start oil paintings and some water colors. I don’t want to give to much away, but I will post a couple of in progress images to show some of what I did.