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THE ASTORIAN • SATuRdAy, MAy 30, 2020
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Artwork by Noel Thomas
‘I stayed in the car while painting this one, a few too many people flocking around for food on 11th and Duane streets,’ Thomas said.
Sketches from the pandemic
Local artist shares
scenes from the
North Coast
By NOEL THOMAS
What are you doing to keep from going lock-
down crazy?
I’m an old guy now, and need to stay safe.
After weeks of the drill — social distancing,
washing my hands for the millionth time, wip-
ing down the groceries, remembering to wear a
face mask and gloves every time I left the house
even to get the paper — I got a little grumpy. To
rescue my mind, and my marriage, I took my
wife Patty’s advice and went out to paint in the
‘One day it was just too cold and drizzly
to go out so I painted from the front
window. Free of PPE,’ Thomas said.
streets and byways of Astoria.
Noel Thomas’s watercolors can be viewed at
bit.ly/riverseanoelthomas
LEFT: ‘This dying house had already social-distanced itself and I didn’t need a mask or gloves, but yes, I washed my hands when I got home,’ Thomas said of his painting on Svensen
Island. RIGHT: Thomas wore his mask and gloves while sketching this Alderbrook boat building shed, ‘partly because it was cold out there,’ he said.