Susan Scheewe Brown & Stan Brown

American Public Television Convention

The week after filming we went to a convention for American Public Television held in Houston, Texas this year. As you can see Sue is with Rick Steves attending a function for the station programmers. Those who are having new shows attend along with the producers and sponsors.

Sue was asked to sit in on this photo shoot using different talent seen on the Create Channel.

Jeff is the station manager of the Detroit  Public Television station where Sue films here series.

Sue is in her booth with Jeff and Wyland, the marine artist.

Sue and friend. Actually they have a few cartoon characters that draw attention to the many booths at the show.

Sue is with Warren Wright and his wife. Warren manages the station at Washington State University. Sue first met Warren in Hunnington Beach, Ca. where she filmed her first series.
     It is a privilege to be part of this presentation. Your support and calls to the stations is important as it allows them to know the interest of their viewers.

Filming A New Television Series for Public Broadcasting

In November, we went to Detroit to film a new series for the PBS television stations and also to be aired on the Create Channel. Check with your local station for a time to see the Scheewe Art Workshop.

This is Sue's floor manager, Fred. He is a retired policeman with the the Detroit Police Force. He does a great job of keeping Sue aware of her time.

This picture has Sue with Dawn Knowles, the producer of Scheewe Art Workshop.

The photos are of filming during the series. Stan takes the still shots for the shows and I realize we need to get him in more photos with me as he is always there to give me support.

Trip to the Coast

    In early September Sue and I went to Cannon Beach, Oregon for the Labor Day weekend. At that time of the year the elk start to come down from the hills for better feeding grounds. Often, they will hang around all day. They let you get very close and the opportunity to photograph the beautiful animals in natural surroundings is plentiful.

The weather was beautiful and as you can see it was warm enough to be in shirtsleeves.

Actually, we had Sue's mother, Birdie, who is 94 and one of our daughters, Camille and her husband , Greg stay with us for the whole weekend. It is so quite and relaxing to listen to the ocean and watch all the natural wonders of the area.

Heart of Ohio Tole Show August 2008

    We are going to try to catch up with some of the great activities that we had this fall and start of the new year. We also plan to put some paintings up for sale, show painting tips and beautiful photos of some wonderful painting locations.

The first photos are of our friends from France and Ros Stallcup at the HOOT Convention. Vernique and her husband, Francoise, have a painting studio in France. We plan to go there sometime in the future to have a special workshop. We all hope to meet again at the HOOT Convention held in Columbus, Ohio again this August where Sue will be teaching several classes.  Ros, Stan and myself will be working the booth together and always enjoy visiting with other painters and dear friends.

August 2nd, 2008

Sue and Sue's mother, Birdie and myself arrived at the beach for our friends 50th wedding anniversary. There was a great party for family and friends. I was standing on their deck and took this image of haystack rock which you can see below.
    The weather turned beautiful in the afternoon of both Saturday and Sunday and we took some great walks along the shoreline. Sunday afternoon there was a wedding on the beach with about a hundred people. The interesting thing about the wedding is they had a brass band led by a tuba player that led the procession into town and to a meeting hall for a reception that had to be a lot of fun.
     Next weekend we leave for Columbus, Ohio for the Heart of Ohio Tole Show. Sue and I always look forward to this show because is so well run and we get to see all of our friends from the painting industry.
     The next weekend after that we travel back to Portland. The next weekend brings Sue to her class reunion which I know she is looking forward to seeing old friends. That means we will not be back to the coast until  Labor Day Weekend.

July 4th, 2008 Cannon Beach, Or.

The whole family, including Sue's 94 year old mother, Birdie went to the beach for the weekend. The weather was good and the festivities were wonderful. We went to Manzanita, Or. for an old fashion 4th of July parade. The city of Manzanita has about 870 full time residents. At the time of the parade there were about 5000 people in the town. The parade lasts for about one hour and 15 minutes. It has to be a huge task for this small city to co-ordinate and pull off a parade of this size.

Grandma Sue and Saylor are part of the crowd  that have lined the entire  length of the town to watch the parade. Our other grandchild, Fischer is standing in the street trying to catch as much candy as possible from the different floats as they pass by. This is truly an All American way to spend the 4th of July. Everyone gets in the spirit if the holiday. Before the parade begins there is a national guard fly by on the entire coast from Astoria down to Brookings. To hear the jets and then see them overhead just wants to make you celebrate the 4th.

As you can see all the floats are homemade and have a patriotic theme. Most floats have children

throwing candy and waving to all their friends. The kids lined up along the parade route have a wonderful time trying to get as much candy as possible

After the parade we had a real 4th of July cookout at our daughter's house. Kimberley had about 40 people over and everyone enjoyed the afternoon. I would say there was about 20 young children and all were well behaved. A man called "The Voice" set up a stage and microphone and entertained everyone in the Frank Sinatra style of vocals. The crowd grew very large to listen.

Saylor and Fischer even did their bit to help celebrate. Saylor is five and Fischer is 7. What a treat they have been.

Sunday morning we went up to Astoria for the farmers market. I think it is the largest market in Oregon.

You can find crafts, food, plants , produce and flowers. I enjoyed looking at the different booths that featured photography. We had lunch at the food court and everyone got something different. You could choose Mexican, Bar-b-Que, fish and chips and assortments wine, beer or exotic lemonade's. All the food was good and all the food booths were busy.

From Astoria we crossed the Columbia River into Washington. The bridge is over 4 miles long. We ended up at Cape Disappointment where there are two lighthouses within 2 miles of each other. This is the only place on the entire coast of the United States that have two lighthouses so close together. The above shot is the north lighthouse.

This images was taken as we were leaving the north lighthouse and heading for the the gift shop and our car.

We drove a short distance to the south lighthouse. As you can see it is the perfect spot for a picnic. To the left is a small crescent beach that is perfect for wading and going into the water, but I have to tell you the water is cold. We had a full and wonderful 4th of July weekend. Sue and I feel blessed to live in such beauty.

Sandcastles Days

 

Sue was born in Portland and I was born in Joplin, Missouri. Every time I go to the coast is a real treat for me.  We usually go to the northern Oregon coast and the city is Cannon Beach. Last weekend
they had their annual sandcastle contest. I am in awe of the artistic skills to create these
beautiful creations. I wanted to share just a few shots and I hope you enjoy looking at these
work of art.

This one had another arch and was called Arch Rivals.

This is about half the number of people who came to watch the creations.
Everyone had a great time and believe it or not it didn't rain. We went home dry
and happy.

National Decorative Painting Show in Florida

Hi, Stan and I are currently away at the National Decorative Painting show in Tampa Florida.
A show filled with inspirational booths, show casing Artist and Suppliers from all over the country.
Hopefully we will have some warm weather to enjoy in the evenings after the trade show.

Soon we will be posting my original paintings for sale, Stans photos and be sharing tid bits.

Hope you are having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend for those of your in the US.

Check back with us as we are just getting started.  Bookmark us in your favorites.  Over the next month or so we will be truly up and running!!!!!!

New Blog!!!!!

Hi we just wanted to say hello and that we are excited to begin our new blog.
We will be posting photos, paintings, paintings for sale and bits of our life and travels here.