Scottish Landscape Painting: There is a restaurant facing the Clyde River near Glasgow, Scotland. This Summer we had good Scottish food there, and a view of clouds over the river. I took too many pictures so I could revisit the cloud layers with watercolor, later. The image above is my first attempt and is most like the original scene. My idea is that you can break down any landscape, or any scene, really, into shapes. So where I tried to get the houses and church on the opposite shore, my second attempts became more simplified. Finally, I got tired of...

Back after Summer Break: Restocking! You could say it is bad planning that I am now in Fairfax and Arlington more than in Alexandria! Only because I have so many Alexandria-themed shirts, paintings, note pads, cards... The up-side is that I have expanded my t-shirt designs for the new locations. I feel it gives me more flexibility with being able to set up in new communities and meet new people. It turns out, retail is actually about the people. I miss customers who I used to see at West End Market! Once a month, I am at Gustave Art Market...

Yellow Dot Shop May News 2026 In Arlington Now Painting Sold Summer Hats! At Arlington's Pike Park Market My neighboring county Arlington, Virginia is full of interesting people, places and things. And yet I have never been in a market there - until now! This May I tried out Columbia Pike Farmer's Market. It is in Pike Park at the corner of S. Walter Reed Drive and Columbia Pike. They have shade trees, live music, lots of good vendors, and they have been there for thirty years! They have been under new vigorous management since last year, and I was...

My April Fool's Post.  For April Fool's Day I like thinking up a clever way to show off the Shop logo in unexpected places! Some years ago, I pasted my logo onto a photo of a Target store. I wouldn't really want the Shop to be as large as Target, but it was fun to picture it. This year April Fool's Day was right before the beginning of baseball season. DC's fairly new stadium makes a great place for the Yellow Dot logo, and my software can make it look pretty real! I was not the only jokester - there...

Yellow Dot Shop is back at the Markets! See me atWest End Farmer's MarketGustave Art Market in Del Ray Easter is coming the first Sunday in April. I will be at West End Market that morning, April 5th, with Easter cards, new framed paintings, hats and more. Ironically, one of my new paintings is actually an autumn painting with leaves. Oh well. I love painting leaves. This one is gouache watercolor, just finished. I got a really nice wooden frame for it. The larger leaf is the same size of the actual leaf! We found it at Tuckahoe State Park in Maryland...