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Every year, I donate an original painting to a local auction for our elementary schools, typically with a PNW theme. This year’s piece is the iconic Dungeness Crab. Probably another 8hrs to go on this one.

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Put in the final touches on the crustacean this afternoon. The auction awaits! Looking forward to seeing this one find a home in a couple of weeks.

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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Every year, I donate an original painting to a local auction for our elementary schools, typically with a PNW theme. This year’s piece is the iconic Dungeness Crab. Probably another 8hrs to go on this one.

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Field trips = child’s choice lunch bag adornment. The subject for today’s trip to the Burke is our glorious 18 year old Chubbers, immortalized here in his very special and much despised blowfish hat.

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Sharing this glorious #cephalopod honor of @montereybayaquarium Deep Sea December, Day 14, Twilight. This opulent Giant Pacific Octopus was painted and donated as part of an auction to raise funds for local schools. Happy it found an amazing home!

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Sydney, Australia. February 2024.

[floatupstream]

magazine ads (1970)

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Plume (mind in a cloud, my heart beats backward now)

Acrylic + paper on canvas. Art by me, 2022.

https://www.evanlavere.com

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Outward, 2022.

[neil-gaiman]

I've read your works for years, but the story I keep coming back to is the one you wrote about your meeting with Lemmy Kilmeister. In the strange magical bar with the fruit machine, and while you said you would never look for it, did you ever stumble upon it once or is it still just a memory?

I just did a little searching online. It still exists, between 10 pm and 3 am, in Soho, although opinion seems divided as to whether it's still the same club/bar it was in the old days. But here's a photo of Lemmy at the fruit machine there in 1986, just as he was whenever I was there in the 80s...

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Okay, I know it’s Summer, but the spooky smoke filtered sun vibes had me thinking of Halloween, so I had some fun with Samhain.

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“Dry”, by me 2021. For better or worse, I feel most connected when I am making things. It’s been gratifying to get my head in the pad and clear out the cobwebs.

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I'd Rather Be With You - Charles LaVere and his Chicagoans

Great tune recorded by a stellar group of Chicago musicians including Joe and Marty Marsala, Zutty Singleton, Israel Crosby and Jess Stacy. LaVere is the voc...

My Grandfather’s 111th birthday was this week. Here’s a tune he cut back in the Spring of 1935 with his multiethnic band Charles LaVere and The Chicagoans. Charlie sings the lead vocal and is supported by an all-star cast, including the legendary Huey Long, as well as Joe and Marty Marsala. Through his friendship with local promoter Helen Oakley, the band recorded several tracks over two dates for Okeh Records, each being very early examples of jazz recordings with a diverse band. The sessions sat unreleased for three decades before ultimately being issued on a variety of compilations by Jump, Tax, and Columbia Records. Happy Birthday, Charlie!

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Resurrection Fever.

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Get out.

Port Orchard, WA

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One of my favorite quarantine activities over the last year has been regular drawing sessions with my daughter based on a shared subject matter - which she selects. These are a couple of my favorite contributions to those sessions (Elephant, and Dinosaur) which were a lot of fun to be assigned. 

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Daylight Savings.

Edmonds, WA 2021