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October 24, 2009

I fixed a couple bad links on the site and did some minor content updates. The link off of ebay auctions to previously sold art is now fixed; unfortunately I don't know how long it was broke for. Its interesting going back and looking at my early stuff from time to time to see progress and perhaps recapture some early energy.

October 1, 2009

Some assorted wildlife pictures to share from my work here. Newt and Turtle at Ames Pond, Charles, Jim, and John at Bucks Harbor, mating crabs under Deer Isle Bridge (crab on top was very aggressive so I put the seaweed back over them), owl in Acadia park near Schooner Head Road (thrumcap area). Not shown are some lowsy bald eagle pictures and a comical chipmunk that tried to get into his hole with a mouthful of acorns, but didn't fit.

I'm wrapping up my study here and will be going through NH and RI prior to flying to Warsaw. I'll be online Thursday, but will be away from email and such until Monday the 5th. Once home I'll post some more pictures and more importantly some of the paintings that have resulted from the trip so far. Thanks for stopping in.

It feels good to be back home after working in Maine. Below is a little map I made of all the places I was working at (in red). It was hard to mark Mt. Desert Isle, but I think I covered it all.

September 28, 2009

Back from my work on Monhegan. I wish I wasn't working as the weather and scenery was perfect, but I had a great time. I stayed at the Monhegan House and the inn keepers were top notch which is typical for the other hotels/inns on the island. Below are a couple pictures with comment.

Whitehead and B Whitehead posing. This part of Monhegan in the background is called whitehead while the more northern facing is called blackhead (not in picture); interestingly blackhead has more white rock area. Please excuse my facial hair; I didn't bring my clippers to the states and I'm feeling a little like Billy Gibbons from ZZtop.

View from my room on the 4th floor (room 31); I slept when it was dark and got up at 4:30 when it started getting light. It felt a little odd eating breakfast at 9:00 after being up for 4 hours, but their omelettes were tasty.

I think I figured out the sworn enemy of artists.... bird watchers. Too often they seemed to find their way into compositions I was working with and also I had to be careful not to scare away their subjects. It seems that our relationship would be similar to clowns and mimes. Actually there was plenty of island for everyone and it was nice seeing some migrating foul and such. They were extremely over dressed as it was downright hot on the island at 60 F, but I'm used to people overdressing in Poland so it wasn't bothersome.

Monhegan forms.

September 24, 2009

I've been crazy hard at work in Maine. Friday I go to Monhegan and I'll be there for a couple days and away from email. Over the past couple days I was focusing on some stuff around Acadia park - Bass Harbor, Wonder Land, Ship Harbor, Great head trail (sand beach), Southwest Harbor, Northeast Harbor, etc. I've been taking a lot of pictures to piece together later to make some great paintings. I hear that the weather earlier this season was horrid, but I've really been lucking out with sun, puffy clouds, and great shadows.

Wildlife has been solid as well, but no moose sightings. There was an owl that stopped by while I was working as well as some bald eagles, assorted deer, pine cone tossing squirrels, a couple turtles at Ashe Pond, a handsome newt, and I was attacked by a large green caterpillar.

September 18, 2009

Bryan in Maine

I've been working basically non stop since this last Saturday. Yesterday I started painting on location and in studio during the evening. So far I've done work around Winter Harbor, Schoodic Point, Stonington, Bar Harbor, Blue Hill, Brooklin, and Castine. I had to buy a couple painting supplies I failed to bring, but the set of new brushes and canvas were waiting for me here. I'll have some very strong paintings coming up and I'll try to get a couple up on ebay and for sale here before I go back to Europe. My studio computer is up and running and I'll be able to update the website again.

The vacation portion of our trip went very well. It was great to see family and friends and goof around a bit with Justyna.

May 30, 2009

Wedding Pictures with comment. Wedding ceremony started at 5pm on May 23. The reception started around 6pm and lasted until 5:30am. The second party started at 3pm on the 24th and lasted until about 12pm. Some guest stayed long past these hours. I'm not going to reduce sizes on the pictures since there are so few right now. When the photos come back from the photographer I'll make up an official page.

Soon after I saw Justyna in her dress. This is in her parents room; I brought her flowers in.

Married now. It took about a year to get all of the paperwork and stuff done to satisfy the state and church, but was well worth it.

Having fun goofing around Piotrkow and getting our pictures.

Our photographer is doing / did a great job altering the originals to make fun stuff like this.

January 28, 2009

There are more holidays in Europe than in the States so I brainstormed for a moment and came up with some additional holiday ideas for the folks in the States. I'll post them in list form and I have no idea if these are already being observed.

Organ donor day - If you are an organ donor (on driver's license, etc) you don't have to work. If you are not an organ donor you have to cover for the people who are. Organ donors that need organs are bumped up the list too.
Advertisement free day. This day its forbidden to have any type of radio or TV advertisement. This will most certainly mess up schedules and make holes in programming. It would still be nice to see.
Domestic Day. Challenge yourself to buy only things made in your country. That trip to Walmart is out of the question.
Bum day. Buy your local bum a beer for no reason other than being compassionate.
Political incorrectness day. All of those old "politically incorrect" sayings come back into style on this day.
Teacher authority day. (in development)
No government benefits day. If you get benefits; you don't this day.

January 16, 2009

Caution: boring update

I've started my third Polish language class and its coming along fine. We get our new study books next week. Our teachers this quarter are good, but I think I can speak for our class when I say that we miss our 1st and 2nd quarter teacher, Beata. Polish is a tough language.

My residency here is coming along fairly well and we have all of the paperwork filled out and ready to submit. Currently I'm technically legally here, but since I'm married to a Pole I'm undeportable. So now I can get in trouble with the Police or customs official and be okay - not that I'm one to get into trouble anyways. When the process is all done I'll give a full report on the process of residing in Poland. As I write this Justyna is at the wedding dress store with her bridesmaid and I jokingly told her not to return until she picked out a dress. She'll make a great bride. I accidentally hit spell check on this page and it came up with a bunch of red words; this is a creative page and like any piece of art, will have errors :) please forgive.

January 15, 2009

I found some left over Wetlina pictures to share. This is from our September trip; it rained the entire 5 days we were there. The newt was found on a path in the mountains and I hate to report that he/she was no longer alive. Like much of the wildlife in Europe these guys are protected, but I'm not sure what happened here. One of Justyna's jobs is keeping an eye out for amphibians and between her and me we found several this day and despite the bright yellow and contrasting black skin and less than impressive land speed they were quite elusive.

[picture: Wetlina, Poland]

January 11, 2009

A couple weekend pictures

Its been cold here in Poland for quite a few weeks now and its snowed a couple times as well. I mention this as its the exact opposite of last year that was warm and free of snow the entire winter. Here are a couple pictures of a farm that we went to last weekend along with some of Justyna's family. I'll comment here. Draga (female version of dragon) came with us and found quite a bit of fun mashing cat tails in her mouth and getting that fluffy stuff all over everyone. The other picture is from a small lake. About the only thing of interest is the abundance of mistletoe that grows here; you can see it in the distant trees.

Jan. 1, 2009

Deer or Giraffe

Justyna has this printed on her pajamas she wears at her parents house. I do not know the age of them, but I'm curious what the animal is here. Please vote:

Deer or Giraffe
	Deer
	Giraffe
	other

December 21, 2008

Wedding Stuff:

I'll post stuff in picture format with comment first; a lot of this is boring, but I promise to entertain at the end - see last picture and link. First picture is of the church Justyna and I will have our church wedding in. There is also a gallery of pictures and some background information and interesting overview picture in Polish.

Next picture is from yesterday and shows a basic state wedding room with official. From the left Izabel (translator), me, Justyna, Michal (front), Official (Zbigniew most likely), and Justyna's mom.

Translation: "this is a good time to kiss"

As promised - be sure to check out the super short video clip of the guy playing the saw at a wedding. I do not believe this to be typical in Poland; this is probably unique to the world. Its only a couple seconds long as I was in the middle of getting married and had to participate and pay attention to stuff in Polish. File size is 1MB and the little rift at the end is correct.

December 19, 2008

Wetlina Pictures

There aren't quite enough pictures of Wetlina to make a seperate categorie so I'll just have the 10 or so here. After a while I'll reduce the number of images until this update makes it to the archive. Wetlina is a very small town on the far south east part of Poland. Its history is robust and dramatic, but its rather quiet today with a population of 300 or so.

October 19, 2008

Below that are some pictures from Wetlina, Poland (surrounding areas). It rained the entire time we were there - not a single second went by when it did not rain, but it was a great trip as I didn't have to work as much.

[picture: Wetlina Poland Hills over town - taken from restaurant]

[picture: Sheep eating grass near Wetlina, Poland]

[picture: House under construction in Wetlina, Poland]

[picture: Real working sheep dogs doing what they do best - being friendly]

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