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Camano Island Studio Tour 2017 – Day One

Sephi

May 23, 2017

Every good journey should begin with a dinosaur. Yes, dear readers, dinosaurs do inhabit our island. Its a little known secret. Alas, we have droves of carnivorous hummingbirds that strip all the flesh from them and leave their skeletons scattered throughout the island.

We have the BEST clouds here!

And even cooler when you strip the color.

Apologies on the reflections. I tried many angles and this was the best I could do. This is one of the Dorseys. I failed to write down which one to attribute to each painting. What I know is that this entire family is immensely talented.

Another one from the Dorsey’s. I fell in love with the tree in this painting. He did such a wonderful job on the shadows in it.

And this one was just lovely!

Upstairs was the work of Ann Cory. I fell in love with her eagle. Alas, I can’t afford it.

This one has a bit of a Vincent feel to it, doesn’t it? I fell in love with it as well.

This was a tree outside on the next property for Betty Dorotik’s Studio and home. I couldn’t resist the tire swing!

One of nature’s contributions.

The gate flamingo!

And my lovely sidekick Margie!

This is a tree stump Betty has in her garden. It looks like there is a nest on the top of it.

Yard and porch art. How fun!

And she has her own swing in her garden. I need to figure out how to do one in mine. Course, that probably means growing a couple of bigger trees.

The view from her back porch.

Back of her house from the garden. Such a lovely home!

This is one of her owl paintings that I fell in love with. Amazing talent!

Gotta love the ravens and their shinies

Another one of her pieces that took my breath away. Such a majestic hawk!

Margie venturing into her tool shed.

Sitting right inside the shelf inside the shed.

Love the handle!

More of her garden art. Gorgeous statue.

The trees are watching you!

And a watcher from above.

And this is the work of Susan Cohen Thompson. Her work has a touch of magic to it. And I think she has been featured in a number of magical magazines if I am not mistaken.

Garden art again. Must be something about artists and their gardens.

BRUSHES!!!!

I am going to take a chance that I have the artist correct on this as I don’t seem to have a card. Roger Cocke. He also belongs to the brushes above.

And this piece I would so have loved to have brought home with me. I fell in love with the colors in the clay. He explained to me how he does it. But, I don’t remember. Probably because I was just smitten wit the face.

And as we were leaving, Margie pointed out the glasswork on the door next door. It is some pretty impressive glasswork!

And that was the end of day one. We had actually visited quite a few others, but I didn’t have my camera when we were at the Terry’s Corner displays and some of the artists didn’t want their work photographed.

And since I still can’t figure out how to get SmugMug to work in here, I will just add the link to the gallery for anyone that wants to see all the pictures. SMUG MUG GALLERY OF CAMANO ISLAND STUDIO TOUR 2017