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The studio is at the Skycraft/Townes scenic farm in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. This lovely area is just 50 minutes from the Portland Airport, and is near fishing, camping, whitewater rivers, and some of the most wonderful scenic beauty in the US. It is just 70 miles from the Pacific Ocean beaches and resorts, and is less than a one hour drive to Mt. Hood and summer snowboard and ski camps!

We are about 7 milwa south of Estacada, Oregon, a small ex-logging town on the Clackamas river, a town with a real old time flavor. Estacada has an exceptional microbrew pub, Fearless Brewery, the Spiral Artist's Cooperative Gallery, three antique stores, a book store and library, and several restauraunts and coffee shops. The town buildings feature eleven wonderful wall murels by the Artback Artists, a privately funded effort. We hope soon to be able to boast a main street wireless hot spot for travelers who want to keep in touch with home by email.

The fourth weekend in July is the Estacada Summer Celebration, an exceptional music festival and an event not to be missed if you plan to be in the area July 22.23 and 24.

http://www.estacadasummercelebration.org/artbackartists.htm (Estacada Summer Music and Arts Festival, The Artback Artists, Spiral Artists' Cooperative Gallery)

An evening view of Goat Mountain from our front yard. The mountain is 6500 feet high and is about 5 to 6 miles from us. It is an ancient volcano, and has a small lake in the old crater, which in spring is rimmed with pink rhododendrons. There is a good viewing spot at the upper lip of the crater (the bump on the left) which is reached by a 20 minute hike from the rough forest track below.
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Another view of Goat Mountain, in July, with the wild Foxgloves in my flower garden as a foreground. The meadow is a sheep pasture, and also a play ground for Buck and Zippy, our dogs. They keep the sheep out of the garden.

The trees in the background are our reforestation project, and behind that is a paper company tree farm and then national forest.
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Our studio companions, Buck, who looks like a German shepherd but is really a border collie, and Zippy, half lab and half blue heeler. They wake us up about 6:15 am, and are very attentive to giving us regular exercise breaks. They consider us part of their pack and take us everywhere.

Zippy loves go go to our pond as much as we do. She believes that someday she will catch one of these Canadian geese. This pair comes to visit every spring. There are no safe nesting places but they graze and grace the pond nicely. The water is clean but there are fish and salamanders and blue dragonflies.

Skycraft Studio is a very big space which accommodates all kinds of painting activities.

This is a painter's studio, specializing in exotic papers.

The second story studio is smaller and is devoted to clean work, such as collage painting and bookbinding
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Peggy is a paint alchemist, and has materials ready to mix any kind of colors. She uses dry conventional pigments, metallic iridescents, as well as aqueous pigment concentrates, dyes, and even ready mixed artist's paints.

Peggy offers occasional classes in the studio.

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Phone: 800.578.5608

Or: 503.630.7173

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Skycraft Designs, 26395 S. Morgan Rd., Estacada, OR 97023 USA

Call to arrange reproduction, printing, use as computer or video backgrounds, or in printed materials. We do custom art for designers.

We are an Angel Company - artists may use our original handmade papers in their artwork, but any reproduction of art incorporating our papers requires formal name credit printed where the image appears or in the sources credits section. Such reproduced images made for resale must have Skycraft permission.© 1998 - 2005

Page Design by Peggy Skycraft -Revised 1/15/05

An evening view of Goat Mountain from our front yard. The mountain is 6500 feet high and is about 5 to 6 miles from us. It is an ancient volcano, and has a small lake in the old crater, which in spring is rimmed with pink rhododendrons. There is a good viewing spot at the upper lip of the crater (the bump on the left) which is reached by a 20 minute hike from the rough forest track below.	.300
Another view of Goat Mountain, in July, with the wild Foxgloves in my flower garden as a foreground. The meadow is a sheep pasture, and also a play ground for Buck and Zippy, our dogs. They keep the sheep out of the garden. The trees in the background are our reforestation project, and behind that is a paper company tree farm and then national forest.	........
Our studio companions, Buck, who looks like a German shepherd but is really a border collie, and Zippy, half lab and half blue heeler. They wake us up about 6:15 am, and are very attentive to giving us regular exercise breaks. They consider us part of their pack and take us everywhere.
Zippy loves go go to our pond as much as we do. She believes that someday she will catch one of these Canadian geese. This pair comes to visit every spring. There are no safe nesting places but they graze and grace the pond nicely. The water is clean but there are fish and salamanders and blue dragonflies.
Skycraft Studio is a very big space which accommodates all kinds of painting activities. This is a painter's studio, specializing in exotic papers. The second story studio is smaller and is devoted to clean work, such as collage painting and bookbinding	. .
Peggy is a paint alchemist, and has materials ready to mix any kind of colors. She uses dry conventional pigments, metallic iridescents, as well as aqueous pigment concentrates, dyes, and even ready mixed artist's paints. Peggy offers occasional classes in the studio. Class Descriptions	. .