Richard Eaves Woods Arts

I have been an artist since I can remember. At one of those parent/teacher conferences, my second grade teacher apologized to my folks. "All I can get him to do is draw."  I have been an artist since I can remember. At one of those parent/teacher conferences, my second grade teacher apologized to my folks. "All I can get him to do is draw."  

All my life I've gotten these urges to draw what pops up on my mental monitor. The intent to make something wakes up my internal search engine; that first image usually makes it to the output device. A quick sketch may be all that happens for the moment, but some I've actually gotten around to bringing to reality. Some of my best work was a re-creation of one of these images that I could see so clearly.

I'm a Washington State native, but attended high school in Concord, Calif., then pursued fine arts training at CSU Chico, Indiana University, South Bend and University of Nevada, Reno.

I've worked as a staffer, and a freelancer, magazine editor, writer, illustrator, designer, artist, commercial photographer. I have also worked as a search and rescue air crewman, electronics tech., carpenter, sign painter/exhibit builder, photojournalist, and lots of other stuff, some that made a living and others that didn't. Lots of gig work before the term hit the internet. 

I have worked mostly in watercolor since high school, but I've tested other media, with some success in oils, acrylics, silkscreen and lithography. I have some fun with assemblage and collage too. I was also a registered photojournalist, with some studio photography experience.
I earned my first art show award as a high school sophomore in the Concord (Calif.) Art Association's 1967 Annual show. I have work in collections at the US Air Force Command HQ, Anchorage, Alaska; Indiana University, South Bend; US Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington DC. My first solo show was in Elizabeth City, N.C., in 1988 with the Pasquotank Arts Council. Recently I showed a group of painting representing the time from 1979 to present, at Aberdeen Art Center, Aberdeen, WA. 

I'm happily married, to Brenda Baker, of Sacramento, CA. We live in Hoquiam, Washington, since January, 2018.