Uncommon Expressions of A Common Man-John McAlpine Art
It was a cold, December morning when I snapped this at the tip of the thumb of Michigan.
I thought this was a nice look at downtown Las Vegas.
A grand old church in Bay City, Michigan.
The afternoon sun makes this photo.
I am lucky to have access to making moon photos in my yard. It avoids the trees!
A colorful mural in Everett, Washington, my second home town.
This was a picture that told me to take it. Something about the colors and lines compelled me to snap it.
Taken at the Boat Launch
Looking at Everett from a distance.
This is one of my favorite things to photograph on the Everett waterfront .
The USS Nimitz and Providence Hospital stand out.
Everett, WA from the Harborview Park vantage point.
Edmonds, WA
Leaving Edmonds for Kingston, WA
Docked here in Everett.
Dominating the landscape.
Everett waterfront.
Marine View Drive, Everett, WA
Using a filter changes red to white.
Edmonds, WA
Northern Puget Sound
About 7:30 on a spring evening.
I like the different textures and colors in this shot.
An Early Spring Day
Looking North from Everett
A Recent Sunset
A Recent Sunset
Mukilteo, WA
From the Mukilteo Beach
Ferry Boat
Mukilteo State Beach
Beautiful
Port Gardner Bay, Everett, WA
A Rugosa Bush
From the Everett Boat Launch on 10th Street
It looks like a group hug to me.
Rucker Avenue traffic at dusk in Everett, Washington.
Mt. Baker as seen from the Everett Washington boat launch.
Being in the right place and the right time helps my photography efforts.
I was in the right place at the right time for this. No post editing has been done to this photo.
All the lines in this shot called to me.
Seattle Train Station
These machines look like something from a science fiction movie to me.
This facility is no longer there.
I liked how the different colors showed up in the low light.
Taken on a beautiful October day.
A great day to be in San Francisco
The view from the street.
The clash of man and machine.
In Everett, Washington
Port Gardner Bay, Everett, WA
The Dredger coming in for a break.
A Big Shadow
Grand Avenue Park, Everett, WA
These trees look more dignified to me, without leaves.
I liked the way the colors play off each other in early spring.
These trees seem to balance each other.
Legion Park, Everett, WA
At a bend in the Snohomish River.
These trees help make the park enjoyable, summer or winter.
An autumn afternoon in Seattle.
Taken by the Carnegie Library in Snohomish, WA
This photo has been altered, presenting a slightly different look.It is available as a note card.
This is available as a note card.
Named for the friends in whose yard this was growing. Taken in light of a summer sunset. This is available as a note card.
Flowers in the park in Arlington in early morning. This is available as a note card.
She had no problem navigating around the thistle. This is available as a notecard.
It's a race to see who gets back to the hive first! This is available as a notecard.
She sat still long enough for a good shot. This is available as a notecard.
From Legion Park in Everett, WA. This is available as a notecard.
Photoshop goes crazy. This is available as a notecard.
Dragon keeping guard in La Conner, WA
Curlicue La Conner
La Conner
Is something missing?
La Conner
Stairway to Heaven, NOT! La Conner, WA
Old junction box
La Conner building
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Everett, WA
Taken from a turn out on the road, the large cloud drew me to take this picture.
Taken the summer of 2015
Taken from the observation deck of the Space Needle in Seattle.
Taken from the observation deck of the Space Needle in Seattle.
From the Space Needle.
I was drawn to the neon lighting up the hallway.
From the Space Needle.
Everett Marina
Everett Marina
Everett Marina
Everett Marina
Look at the walk in clinic close by the food place!
On Michigan Avenue, downtown.
Renaissance Center, Detroit River
Between Detroit and Windsor
Everett, WA
Everett Farmers Market
Everett Farmers Market
Everett Farmers Market
Everett Marina
Everett, WA
A road which will remain unidentified
Glencoe, Ontario
Glencoe, Ontario. Original structure built in 1873.
Linking Detroit Michigan and Windsor Ontario
Home of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Club
Comerica Park
Building Art!
Heading East
Middle of Washington State
I think dandelions should come in designer colors......
Pasco Wa, Switching Yard
Port of Everett Boat Launch, Jan 2015
Taken on a sunny January day.
Taken, at a stop light!
Everett Marina on a Cold January Morning
A little bit of wind and voila! A photograph!
Late January at the Marina in Everett, WA
Yet to be walked on pier at Everett Marina
It fell right at my feet, as if to say 'take my picture'. So I did.
Captured on a breezy summer day.
Don't know the name but they are beautiful.
Public Art, Everett, WA
It's that time of year!
I don't know anyone who doesn't like sunflowers (sorry Sara Lee).
Cranes for unloading ships at sunset.
Docked for some shore work.
Taken from the 3rd floor of my apartment building.
Photo of some of the downtown Detroit skyline from inside Comerica Park.
Inside Comerica Park
Closeup of scoreboard at Comerica Park
From inside Comerica Park
Taken July 2014
Detroit Skyline again
Front Gate of Comerica, downtown Detroit
Looking down on clouds from my airplane
From downtown Detroit
Heading East
Overlooking Port Gardner Bay, Everett, WA
Spacey looking!
Taken from a car at 70 mph!
August 2014
Summer afternoon picture
Everett WA
From August 2014
Everett WA
Everett WA
Kirnan Estates, Scotland
Argyll, Scotland
A nice wooden boat
Oban, Scotland
Oban Bay, Scotland June, 2014
Great baked goods here!
I stayed in this cottage.
At Loch Lomond
A rock standing after the tide goes out. Port Gardner Bay, Everett, WA.
On the beach, Everett, WA
Dock in Everett
WA.
WA.
Everett, WA
Using a Red Filter
USS Nimitz and others
From Howarth Beach, 2014
Cascade vs Woodenville, 2014
Right Fielder, Cascade, 2014
Raindrops Paint the Flower
Breaking From the Batter's Box, Cascade 2014
Downtown Everett, 2014
High School Playoff- Cascade vs Snohomish, 2014
High School Playoff- Cascade vs Snohomish, 2014
High School Playoff- Cascade vs Snohomish, 2014
High School Playoff- Cascade vs Snohomish, 2014
High School Playoff- Cascade vs Snohomish, 2014
At Everett Memorial Stadium, 2014
From a local pine tree in the the spring.
Everett Marina
From Corkscrew Sanctuary Swamp, Florida
$150.00 USD
From Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in southwest Florida.
The Heron is trying to chase the Egret from the log boom.
A territorial dispute.
Chasing the Egret
Landing again
Egret In Flight, Everett, WA
Perched on the light stand.
Everett, WA
At the Everett waterfront.
Everett waterfront.
Everett boat launch
At the Everett, WA boat launch. He eventually got it down.
Everett boat launch
From about 20 feet away
Pigeons heading somewhere in a hurry.
Taking your bird for a 'walk'
They were obnoxious
Searching- at the Everett Boat Launch
Everett Boat Launch
Everett Boat Launch
Everett WA Boat Launch Regular
Howarth Beach, Everett , WA 2014
Crow posing, Everett Boat Launch
Mukilteo State Beach, April 2014
He was quite vocal, maybe looking for his mate?
Everett Boat Launch
What more is there to say?
Mount Baker in the Background
The water almost looks painted to me.
Bathing Starlings
Resting in the sun.
Momma hard at work.
Feeding time.
Bringing dinner.
Waiting for an unsuspecting insect.
On a late summer night
He sees his shadow.
Huddled against the wind.
He who laughs last?
Seagull talking.
Grey seagull on a grey day.
Yakety Yak!
These pigeons seem to mean business.
Blue Heron on the hunt.
He'll need a lot of those.........
This is available as a note card.
Watercolor used like acrylic. I have created a series of these paintings all on a similar theme, all done on acid free watercolor paper. 8x10 unframed.
Started life as a pencil sketch in a coffee shop. I have several pieces I refer to as coffee shop creations. This is one.
Another from my Coffee Shop Creation series.
A Coffee Shop Creation piece as I try to study values and shading.
A Coffee Shop Creation about flowers.
A Coffee Shop Creation taking on some of the issues of our time.
A variation on a theme. Closely related to the Multi Colored Flowers piece.
More Coffee Shop Creation work. In my world, flowers can wear shoes!
A contrast and shading exercise.
Sort of finished drawing of a coffee shop planter
A cat in a diner.
Some fun shapes and colors
Does your garden look like this? If so, you might be trouble! :)
Harless and Hugh is a local coffee shop where I hand and try to practice my craft.
Mushroom houses are fun to draw.
A study in shadow.
I have several versions of this pear. Apearently I like them.
More pastels......
Colored pen and pastel pencil
Colored pen and pastel pencil
Colored pen and pastel pencil
Colored pen and pastel pencil.
5x7 colored pen and pastel pencil
Colored Pen- 7x9
Colored pen 8.5x11
Dessert Oasis, Rochester Michigan
Colored pen- 8.5x11
Colored Pen/Pastel Pencil - 8.5x11
Colored Pen 8x11
Colored Pen 8x11
Pastel Pencil 8x11
Pastel Pencil, Colored Marker 8x10
Pencil and Charcoal, 8x10
Pastel Pencil, Colored Markers 8x10
Pastel pencil, colored marker 8x10
Pencil, colored pencil, pastel pencil 9x11
Pastel Pencil, Colored Markers
Pastel pencil, colored markers 8x11
Chalk Pastel, Pastel Pencil 9x112
Colored pencil, colored marker 8x10
Pencil, Charcoal 8x10
In my minds eye, I see this place of refuge....
Oil Pastel
Chalk Pastel
Chalk Pastel
I like orange skies!
Oil Pastel, one of my first.
The time of year when everything appears cold and bleak. Oil Pastel, 8x11 unframed.
Mountain peak from my imagination. Chalk Pastel. 24x36 unframed.
Lemon tree orchard. Oil pastel. 6x8 unframed.
With apologies to Van Gogh. Oil Pastel, 8x12 unframed.
The sky is green and it's reflecting the grass. Or is it? Chalk Pastel, 8x12 unframed.
Just exactly what the title says. Chalk Pastel, 8x12 unframed.
A tightrope walker in the forest. Who knew? Chalk pastel, 12x16 unframed.
