With only a slight bit of attention paid to the content of my web site it is easy to see that there hasn't been anything added or updated for almost a year. What a grand idea it was to have the web site designed so that I could make the necessary changes myself. Oh but there is the problem. I never feel like I have enough time to paint let alone enough time to upload information onto my web site. Well, I've decided to pull in the reigns for a while and do fewer shows and show in fewer galleries just so my painting and some of these other things aren't as likely to fall by the wayside. We will see....... Thanks for looking. I hope to be updated by the fall.

As the winner of the First Place Prize in the 2006 annual members show for Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Doug Martin has been invited to participate in the 8th Annual Laguna Plein Air Painting Invitational. The venue for the show is The Laguna Art Museum with the gala opening taking place on October 14, 2006. For more information go to lpapa.org.

I am proud and thrilled to have recieved the First Place Award in the 2006 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Members Show that took place earlier this spring. To be recognized in a show of such strong painters is very gratifying. I am looking forward to painting in California again for part of September and most of October the coming fall.

Doug Martin is proud to be accepted as part of this annual show at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa Oklahoma. The show opens October 21, 2006 and will be viewable online at gilcrease.org.