A18 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015
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PHILLIPS:
the world.
Although she doesn’t do
it as much at 62 years old,
Phillips worked with hors-
es for many years and said
it is important for artists to
be perceptive of patterns in
their subject material.
“People should draw
things that they know,” she
said. “For instance, on a
horse, its muzzle, they have
all these whiskers, just like
a dog, and they don’t just
grow there, they grow in a
pattern. If you know what
the pattern is, it’s easier to
make it totally realistic.”
If something is portrayed
inaccurately, Phillips said
it can ruin a piece of art.
The patterns on multi-col-
ored paint horses, for ex-
ample, can only cross in
certain ways in reality, she
said, and artistic renderings
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“Sometimes, people put
them on horses in a way
that is unrealistic, and then
people will look at the pic-
ture, and they might not like
it, and they might not know
why they don’t like it,”
she said. “It might be be-
cause it’s not realistic. It’s
not possible for something
in that piece of artwork to
happen that way.”
Phillips’ mother, Louise
Johnson, said her daugh-
ter knows every muscle,
kink and hair on a horse,
and Phillips would always
point out minute details to
her own daughters, Justa
Phillips and Andrea Phil-
lips-Murphy.
“She would get in the
car, and they would go
somewhere — she’s got
two girls — they’d be
going down the road, and
she’d point out that lit-
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the shape of that tree and
every detail about it,”
Johnson said. “When I go
down the road like that, I
just notice that there’s a
tree and some hills and the
road goes up and down,
but not her.”
Phillips said drawing
gives her peace. The con-
centration required allows
her to let go, she said, and
what takes hours often
feels like minutes.
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also allows her to express
herself.
“When I draw, I just
kind of zone out,” she
said. “It’s very soothing
It’s very calming. I simply
enjoy it. Around my fam-
ily, I’m quite social and
outgoing. In the public,
I’m not very social and
outgoing, but I do enjoy
the art shows where peo-
ple come and go.”
Phillips said she prefers
using graphite and pencil
in her artwork because
of the level of detail that
can be communicated, but
she also uses acrylic and
oil and even sculpts. She
recommends artists build
a large portfolio of work,
frame it as best as they
can afford and then show
it “everywhere and any-
where” they can.
In addition to the li-
brary, Phillips’ work can
be viewed on her Face-
book page: Linda Phillips
Western Art.
for other developments.
“We see the hotel-restau-
rant being more of the an-
chor to the site that would
bring in other businesses
and things like that,” he
said.
Larsen said he does not
know if any developers are
seriously pursuing purchas-
ing any of the land avail-
able, although he has heard
rumors here and there that a
few have indicated their in-
terest in the possibility.
“The problem is people
don’t talk to me,” he said,
adding people have also
expressed to him that they
would like to see develop-
ment go in there. “It’s kind
of the gateway to this end
of Umatilla County.”
The next public hearing
for the annexation will take
place during the next reg-
ular City Council meeting,
beginning at 7 p.m. April 21
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bers, 150 W. Coe Ave. Peo-
ple can read the applica-
tions in question and details
of possible zoning changes
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S. Main St. For more infor-
mation, call 541-449-3831.
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Hermiston artist Linda Phillips enjoys working with graphite and pencils to create intricate
details in her work, but she also uses acrylic and oil and even sculpts. Her work is on display
at the Hermiston Public Library throughout the month.
ANNEXATION
cess any developments.
The site would be con-
nected
to existing sewer
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services by boring under-
have it connected to water neath Highway 395 and
and sewer lines.
installing pipes to any de-
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Oregon Department of water line has already been
Transportation, which con- bored under the highway.
trols access to Highway
“While it’s not routed to
395, have already agreed the property, it’s as close as
the city can extend Stan- you’re going to get without
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people can enter the area in he said.
question from the highway.
The land in question has
They city would construct been considered for devel-
a frontage road parallel to opment after the city hired
395 to allow drivers to ac- consultants to conduct a
marketing study identifying
what the property would
best be suited for and learn-
ing the property owners
were interested in selling.
The land is intended to
be zoned for tourist-com-
mercial use, and city of-
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hotel and restaurant built.
Larsen said, if a hotel and
restaurant similar in size
to the Best Western and
Denny’s on the outskirts of
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side of Highway 395 were
to go in, there would still
be plenty of land remaining
LOTS:
$9,200 to the tax base.
The plans call for sin-
gle-family homes on all of
the lots, despite the high-
er-density R2 and R3 zone
designations.
Also on the City Coun-
cil agenda, Mayor Dave
Drotzmann will read a
proclamation congratulat-
ing the Hermiston High
School wrestling team
for its state championship
victory. The council will
also consider approving
an agreement to name An-
derson Perry & Associates
the city’s engineer of re-
cord.
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$130,000, and, at $6.87 per
assessed $1,000, the new
homes would add a little
more than $18,700 to the
city’s tax base.
The Desert Sky proposal
would create 14 new 9,000-
to 20,000-square-foot lots
zoned R1 — single-fam-
ily residential. It would
reserve about 14 acres
for future use on about 19
acres of land west of the
existing development along
Southwest Cotton Drive
and Southwest Desert Sky
Drive. The homes would be
valued at about $150,000
each, bringing in a little
more than $14,400 into city
coffers from tax revenue.
The Castle Homes plan
proposes 10 new 6,000-
to 14,000-square-foot lots
zoned R3 — multi-family
residential — on about 2.5
acres along the south side
of West Highland Avenue
south of the Gotta Stop
Mini Mart and Pioneer RV
Park. The proposed sin-
gle-family homes would be
valued at about $135,000
and would add about
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Saturday, April 18, 2015
Hermiston Conference Center
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Our Annual Meeting theme “Homegrown”
will recognize an array of products grown
and processed in our local area.
Learn about UEC accomplishments in the
past year, and what we expect in the year ahead.
As always, attendance is free to UEC members.
We hope your will join us!
Featured Speaker
J Judy Hill Lovins of
Aspen Colorado, a
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fine art photographer
and “homegrown”
native of Hermiston,
will share her life story.