Nye Beach Banner Project 2020 – Charlie Munroe, “Tiny Bubbles” and “Music and Dining at Nye Beach” Twelve years ago, a little-known beach enclave, Nye Beach (nestled in Newport, Oregon) decided to enlist local artists to create colorful, two-sided banners to hang around their neighborhood. They hoped to encourage visitors to get out of their
Take me away to the “Wedding Field.” This spectacular setting for an after-the-wedding photo op is not what I would have thought of on my own. My daughter showed me two late-afternoon photos with the sun going down and asked me to combine these. My first thought was the lack of light. But capturing the
Several months back I started to add gas stations, restaurants and street corners to my Classic car paintings. With all those elements adding up it was only a matter of time before someone would commission me to paint their entire collection of cars into one large painting. That’s exactly what happened after painting a roadster
Do you have a friend who maybe kinda’ looks like somebody famous? So you flatter him by mentioning it. Well, we have these two friends who are dear to us and I wanted to do something special for them to show our appreciation. So I painted these one-of-a-kind, look-alike paintings and mailed them out of
Whenever I think of this soldier who pierced Jesus’ side, I can’t help but wonder what was going through his mind. This wondering moved me to paint him in his moment of agony. He’d just killed an innocent man. Perhaps he has killed and tortured many before. Did his guilt finally catch up with him?
Nothing stirs me up more than being asked to paint something that’s already been done. Bring the viewer into the painting, like someone you may have seen in a gallery sitting or standing for the longest time, just staring at a certain painting or piece of art. That’s what inspired me to get wild with
Painting portraits is one of my favorite things to do. I’ve spent many hours painting tribal members of the Washoe tribe. It has honed my skills and given me insight into painting portraits. People often say to me, “It’s like you’ve captured their spirit.” I’ve noticed some things about capturing character in my subjects. Painting
Painting classic cars… this idea never crossed my mind. One day, back in 2017, my musician friend‘s wife, Marilyn Kirkpatrick, came up to me after church service and said, “you should paint classic cars!” She said that would be easy for me. But what she didn’t know is that back in the eighties I was
After we got settled into our new Oregon home, my wife and I decided we should be serving our new community and looked for opportunities to do just that. Painters paint, so that’s one of my primary ways to give back. Two of my first coastal paintings were, “Our Little Friend Plover” in oil, then
Hello everyone! Just want to say hi and let you know this is my new blog site and web page – a fun place to see what’s new on my easel and share what I’m painting while taking you along on my journey. Soooo…lets stay connected! Please send me your email so I can keep