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Odell, Oregon |
| Oregon Sketch Journal |
Sketching affords us a very different perspective than the modern digital pocket camera. Like large format photography, it demands you spend time with the place you visit. As I travel through Oregon this year, I've opted to spend more time illustrating it and see if the process can help me reveal more about the state. |
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| February 3, 2013 | Southeast Portland |
| Belmont Architecture |
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Another home on Belmont in Southeast Portland. The bright colors on this home would not be that unique in the Belmont area, where many homes and buildings are brilliantly painted. But this one, and its twin, which is painted in blue and aqua, seemed as if they were designed for the bright palette.
A local construction worker saw that I was looking at the home, and came up to chat with me about it. He said that the two houses were built by the Disney family. The one I sketched above was the residence of Walt Disney's parents. They lived at this residence for a short time up to 1937, when the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves gave Disney reason to buy them a home in Hollywood. Not long in their new home, after complaining about fumes from the gas furnace, the two were found unconscious on the ground in this home. Roy Disney's father survived, but his mother died from the poisonous gas of the faulty gas line; an event which created the internet-age legend that Disney character's tend not to have mothers due to Disney's guilt for removing his parents from Portland.
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| February 3, 2013 | Portland, Oregon |
| Chinatown Sign Resurrected |
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I always loved the Hung Far Low sign when I saw it on 82nd Street in Portland. It disappeared a few years ago when the restaurant closed. But when I saw the famous sign resurrected in Portland's Chinatown, I had to find out more.
It turns out the owners of Ping Restaurant resurrected the sign in Chinatown with the help of the city of Portland. The original Hung Far Low restaurant dates to 1928. According to Portland Architecture, Hung Far Low translates as, "almond blossom fragrance" in the Taisan dialect.
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| February 1, 2013 | Oregon Journal |
| Architecture in Southeast Portland |
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| The traditional wood houses of Southeast Portland are stunning. I found the home on the left in the Hawthorne Neighborhood. The home on the right is now a coffee bar on Belmont. |
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| August 15, 2012 | Oregon Journal |
| Portland Farmers Market |
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| Farmer's Market. These are my first sketches of people walking around at the Portland Farmers Market at Portland State University, where you can buy mushrooms picked from the coastal mountains, locally caught kippered salmon, and a variety of locally-grown produce. |
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| January 01, 2010 | whereabouts |
| Zumwalt Prairie |
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| Summer 2012: On the Zumwalt Prairie, hundreds of elk travel in herd. In my piece on the Zumwalt Prairie, the abundance of elk prompted me to ask why so many of the ranchers in the area were opposed to the wolf reintroduction program. |
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| May 15, 2012 | Oregon Journal |
| Odell, Oregon |
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With my family in Odell, Oregon, a small town along highway 35 in the Hood River Valley. It's stunning here in late spring, when the fruit orchards are blooming under the white crest of Mount Hood. |
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| May 10, 2012 | Oregon Journal |
| Hood River |
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| Hood River, about fifty miles east of Portland, is a vibrant sports town; downhill skiers, kiteboarders, windsurfers and kayakers fill the city. I noticed this red vespa parked on a quiet spring afternoon. |
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| October 15, 2012 | whereabouts |
| Pearl District Condos |
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| Sketched these new construction condos in the Pearl District of Portland while driving around with my son, looking for puddles to drive through. |
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