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Abstract Painting Study

I love painting abstract because the final product can be four totally different peices. This latest peice is an example. If you have a painting on your wall for months or years at a time, you can lose interest in it. Rotating it allows you to constantly have a sense of progress, or change to [ READ MORE ]

Telecaster – the new pup

Say hello to the newest addition to the Toomey Family. “Telecaster” (Tele) was born 6 days after the wedding and is primarily black lab with a little bit of husky in her. Leo Fender developed the Telecaster in the 1940′s and has since became a legendary guitar. Used to record the first Zeppelin album, below [ READ MORE ]

New Loops

Sitting in a very croweded bombs away cafe watching Curtis Monette shred the life from his acoustic in an hour loop set that consisted of three songs was pretty amazing. I’m no where near that, but I do enjoy the loops and this weekend got a chance to record two looped jamps. Each song is [ READ MORE ]

Pistol River Creative has been developed to spread, market and expand my creative network.  I am Dylan Toomey, a native oregonian beer drinkin’, music lovin’, creative snowbird that seeks to drive forward.  My art has developed from scratching basic graffiti in my note books in high school, to commissioning graffiti in homes, businesses and other [ READ MORE ]

Pistol River Creative

Wow, it’s been 2 solid months so I wrote a thought down. I have been busy with the wedding, the honeymoon and then coming back to this crazy work life I have been dealing with. Corvallis on monday, tuesday and wednesday night then Portland the rest of the nights. Finally moved into the house enough [ READ MORE ]

Bamboo Grove

So I just got word the bamboo grove is closing down. I guess the business world isn’t kind. It takes more than being a bad ass salon with great art gallery to make money and stay in business. Here are some pics from the show at the beginning of the month. I painted a character [ READ MORE ]