Bill Perkins

Bill Perkins is an artist who hails from Portland, Oregon presently. He has completed many important and major arts projects. This is where to find this one's works. I hope you enjoy it. So welcome to it too!

It is perhaps important that you don't confuse him with the others of same name too readily as there are, or maybe quite a many few or several of them as is? That is okay. Sure enough that might be too?

Would you like to go directly to the pictures now? You may! Or read on for a lot more?

NOTE #1: See Blog 'J' here online for a great slide show of this artist? And thereon read more for it all too? Also discover number puzzles, domino puzzles and some poetry herein this total Blog site of files by him too. Bill has a lot to share!

About his background now? It takes a lot for some fantasy art to come to fruition as you might suspect for sure! About as much to attend with all in ones present for it too? So he happily works at a job for taking attendance for mental health patients in a local day program in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon that runs a regular 4 days a week. Has been keeping this important and helpful job for more than 5 years now and counting too. You might see it helps him to continue to better survive in this our countries awful down turned economy? Also he is a Volunteer Activities Director for more work with the company for movies and games with music appreciation there amongst his helping with it for fun and experience too. So he does share a lot? Certainly!

As for more sharing he also gets to play many combinations of games there with play tester friends on his off clock time with work hours with such as specialized created games by himself and newer versions of old ones too. Some of the old favorites of these players are: Rummy, Dominoes (Fives game), Black Jack (through the deck version), etc. Sometimes too new classic variations of his own original creation by name are there played too: Kingside, Squaressi Kings for 1 deck of cards and Wild Double for big domino sets of dominoes amongst others too. He then also plays games from his Dominoes Plus published guide of over 100 games to tiles too. He is every day now bringing in new games to share most every month or week too! SEE now the Facebook.com games as on his wall at that one site as for all the rules for the special exclusive games by him too?

So about the arts and this Artist? Much is in this background. He perhaps makes it no mystery and lays it out like the artist he is now? He also likes using technical pens on poster board such as bristol board and he colors his work with fine colored markers too.

It is now a one big and major project just completed! Bill has recently finished writing and publishing in 2011 his 'Protopoetics' - a poetry and arts book of 61 pages, 7 chapters, and 22 poems with lulu.com online! It is available now to the public online at lulu.com too. He is presently (as further inspired) also breaking ground on working on a grand and fully developed family and children's book about friendly garden and forest gnomes presently. You may find them (these gnomes) readily throughout many of the art pieces online herein. He calls them the 'Oregon Rain Gnomes'. They are really quite charming. The appeal of them is well kept too! Do you know of any of them? I would!

So he is looking for those who attach value to art and the arts too as there is very fine values of all kinds of expression for arts today and more - he just would like to find those with those attachments? That would be a great connection! Check out also then the several extent Blog entries hereon this site too for more games, puzzles and recent projects he is yet working on? It is very entertaining. There will be many more soon to come! It is to be certainly guaranteed. There is much in the light of this for him now to do? Perhaps too much as has already been granted?

NOTE #2: Here is a thing worth checking on too? One of a favorite blog entry is on his current status with his production of a project for Playing Cards BINGO as a major new adaptation of the genre of card playing and with a crossing of BINGO with it for a brand new kind of twist for popular playing! Check it out herein to find pictures and his ongoing discussions of the many features for it as this exciting plan for card play and BINGO comes to fruition much like the domino book previously published with him in 2001? Yes, it is guaranteed to even be adaptable for BIG BINGO game Halls too as well as the Family Den for groups too. So it is bound to please about most anyone who plays those kinds of newly developed games!

NOTE #3: See also here the following below for an outline of some things also on his resume he has already done in his past history:

Education: Honors Graduate of Portland Community College with 2 degrees - 1) AAS in Technical Illustration 1988 & 2) AAS in General Studies 1988 & a 1st year of Architectural Drafting completed. Also other various postgraduate computer and writing classes at PCC too.

Publications:
1) Dominoes Plus, The Dominoforms Handbook - published by Writers Club Press of iUniverse in 2001 ISBN #0-595-20576-3/
2) Protopoetics - poetry and arts book published 2010 and 2011 by Lulu Publishers (no ISBN number of reference yet on this book now)
3) Featured poem of 'Card Menagerie' in The International Who's Who of Poetry for 2007 too.
4) 2 Calendars formerly for the year of 2011 available and for sale at lulu.com online by Lulu Publishers
5) The Artfull Garden Calendar of Year 2012 is now available for $16.00 in The Artful Garden store in Hillsboro, Oregon locality at this time!
NOTE #4: Also 2 copies of Dominoes Plus are signed by this artist and available at Jacobsen's Books & More across from The Artfull Garden store now!

Awards: 1) Phi Theta Kappa Honors Graduate in 1988 2) Editor's Choice Outstanding Achievement Award In Poetry from Poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry in August 2006 3) ' ' ' Achievement Award in Poetry from ' and ' in March 2008.

RECENT HONORS: Featured in Newspaper Articles: July 30, 2010 Argus of Hillsboro, Oregon Section C Focus Writers Joann Boatwright's Story titled 'Gnome Man' featuring bio, recently chosen as 'Artist of the Month' in 2011 for the downtown Artwalk Tuesday. That article is also now online at the Argus website under the same story title.

NOTE #5: Protopoetics - a books so titled as published by Bill P. is available online at Lulu.com with these features included in it:
- 22 original poems (that range from fantasy arts and gnomes to finding coffee in the morning and politics as topics),
- 61 pages (all are incredibly designed for greater interests added in Bill's original poetry),
- 7 chapters (all with very whimsical fantasy art related titles such as finding coffee shops, far away kingdoms, marvelous beasts and monsters),
- more than 2x12 art works in its many pages too (for going hunting through with massive arts contents all on their own),
- Biography (i.e. of Bill Perkins, the author),
- List page of all the many books Illustrations,
- Book Club Study Guide pages for Protopoetics (with a few study questions for them too).

NOTE #6: This poetry book of Protopoetics is completely wrote, illustrated, designed and even revised all by the author of it - Bill Perkins himself. So be aware of just that prodigious accomplishment as a fact? The 21st poem at books end of 'An American Empowerment' is perhaps a special to be highlighted and so verily promoted one poem in it in chapter 7 that polishes off the whole tome and collection as well for it? Enjoy it - and check it out soon? Online at Lulu there is a 12-page demo for the first 12 pages available to all who key on to the site! So seek and find that too?

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