"I am calling this art LatchArt.
"Latch" an acronym for Latent Childhood."
From: Art From the Back of the Mind: Doing LatchArt by Dr. M.Mustoe

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Would you like to hear a pretty song while you look at this website? Relax eh! Night Night!:

Lyrics ca U.S. Civil War, guitar and vocal , M. Mustoe
Thank You Penny for the Artistic and Symetrical Input!

 Why Do We Have Apples
Limited Edition

Different Kinds of Weather and Clouds
Limited Edition


At the Beach
Limited Edition




 Abandoned
Limited Edition 9 only



The Four In The Okanogan:
The Story of the 30 Mile Fire

NOT FOR SALE AT THIS TIME

COMING SOON ANGEL PROMICES

Three prints in the landscape theme above are presently for sale: "Why We Have Apples", "Different Kinds of Weather" and "At The Beach". Prints are in brilliant colour, 28 by 22 inches with a small border around each and are suitable for framing. Each print is part of a limited edition set and are numbered and hand signed. The media is consistent, in all of these prints: colour crayon, pencil and ink. Each print is printed on heavy bond material. There will be three more images in the landscape theme so if you are interested in a complete set, please keep checking back. These prints are suitable for children's rooms or maybe in a nursery, or perhaps in a library or doctor's office. If you like primitive, organic art, you will enjoy these high quality prints.

Some Information On LatchArt

Since the completion of the Weather poster I have built my own colouring board which works much better as a base than simply cardboard. It helps me organize my colour crayons. I also bought a light for the board which makes it so much easier to see the work. This art work is the result of a series of on going investigations I have completed into Object Relation Theory, children's literature, art and music. It has been on going for over ten years. More on LatchArt methods is coming so I hope you can come back soon.


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A Little Resume About Me
Dr. M. Marian Mustoe

My Other Art Work:
I was a trial artist while visiting Phoenix, Arizona for the Don Bowles Murder Trial in 1977. This was a mean thing to draw however, Percy Foreman (James Earl Ray), defense attorney on the case told me I was doing a good job.It was my first exposure to this kind of drawing and my work was on television news.

In 1979 I produced a commemorative poster for the 50th anniversary of the Cascade Tunnel.
A limited edition was run, the original resides in the North Central Washington Museum in Wenatchee, Washington and a copy was sealed in the time capsule at t he east portal of the Tunnel in the Cascade Mountains. See it here: The Cascade Tunnel.

I designed the Texas A&M Geography Department Flag Logo for a Space Shuttle flight in the 1990s. I completed my Ph.D. there working in the geography department and in education. Also while at A&M, I produced a poster for the Geography Institute on Children's Literature of the Southwest.

I am also interested in custom artistic box design. I produce large scale boxes about 3 by 3 feet. With your wood burned images.

Some Information On my Latent Chilhood Art. "LatchArt®" is what I call it for short.

Since the completion of the Weather poster I have built my own colouring board which works much better as a base than simply cardboard. It helps me organize my colour crayons. I also bought a light for the board which makes it so much easier to see the work. This art work is the result of a series of investigations that has gone on for over ten years. It has focused on components of Object Relation Theory, children's literature, art and music. More on LatchArt methods is coming up so stay tuned for that eh.

Music
I have been active in the music business for quite some time. I am a published songwriter, a member of BMI and I have won two awards in the Nashville Song Festival for folk music. I have performed my music for both presidents of a major university and the United States and for the most part these days I work with a wonderful record label in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunshine Records. I have worked with many great musicians over the years, had a little success on the radio in North American and abroad, but the greatest honours came in 2001.
In 2001 my song, The Four In the Okanogan, was performed as a part of the memorial service at the Yakima SunDome for the four USDA forest fire fighters who lost their lives in the 30 Mile fire. A LatchArt poster will be available soon on this event.

My primary position is that of a geography professor at Eastern Oregon University. My research interests include:
audio (technology) applications in education, radio emergency communications, and perceptual issues in landscapes.
About LatchArt, coming soon.

Thank you for reading, thank you for listening.

Other Art Links:
Crayola
Open Ended Art.
A rationale for recipe art in the classoom and its implications
Creative Open-ended art
Stories Sites:
A Story for Bed Time
Bedtime Stories My Kids Love
Miette's Bedtime stories
Candlelight