Calling card for me as WhiteLine Woodblock Printmaker

Leaving in a couple days to head up the whiteline woodblock printmaking workshop, and I realized this afternoon that I had no calling cards!

  Got cards now!

5 days before the Peninsula School of Art WhiteLine Printmaking workshop

I am trying to do one white line wood print a day

to find, or cause myself as many problems as I can

in order to be as prepared as possible for the Peninsula School of Art Workshop I'm heading up in a few days.

The French Horn and the Trumpet are carved into crummy plywood...think it's called underlayment.

The Guitar is in pine....

newer pine than the 100 year old pine I used for the Small Dog.

I decided to see how fast I could go...

so it was begun and completed between when the coffee kicked in and sometime in the mid afternoon.

Not bad....

not quite what I'm used to seeing...but ok. 

What I thought interesting...was how good the color was off the pine.

Tomorrow I'm going to make one of the pine I just got for class...

it's only fair and right for me to know what I'm getting them into.

Funny...except for the "small dog"....

I don't think I've carved much pine. . . cherry, mahagony, shina plywood...I think that's about it.

For the Guitar.....I decided to see how fast I could go...

(remember, I'm trying to do one-a-day)

so it was begun and completed between when the coffee kicked in and sometime in the mid afternoon.

Not bad....not quite what I'm used to seeing...but it's ok. 

This came from a scribble I made when at Bill Bryant's Open Mike at CrossRoads CoffeeHouse in CrossPlains, Wisconsin

What I thought interesting...was how good the color was off the pine.

Tomorrow I'm going to make one of the pine I just got for class...

it's only fair and right for me to know what I'm getting them into.

Funny...except for the "small dog"....

I don't think I've carved much pine. . . cherry, mahagony, shina plywood...and sugar pine...

yes, sugar pine...really nice.

...I think that's about it.

OK...more later.

Whiteline woodblock prints started

I finally shifted mental gears and have begun doing the whiteline prints...

making notes and snapping pictures to prepare for the 

Peninsula School of Art Whiteline Woodblock Printmaking Workshop I'm heading up July 1, 2 & 3.

I snapped this last night with my cell phone.

I will post some step by step photos when I get them off the real camera.

I woke up early to see what I did last night.

Always, always, always......

the next day, or after some time passes, it becomes a surprize for me.

I love the surprize.

Sometimes it needs a little extra help...

sometimes it's standing strong on it's own.

This one doesn't need me anymore.  

It's pretty nice.

I have to do another.

The Career of a Linda Kelen Paddlefish

 The PaddleFish I carved for the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant documentary,
Rhythm of the River is....much to my delighted surprize, still very much alive and well!
It really is great to know that SO many smiles come from it's existence.
This really makes me smile.

So, check out what Flo's been up to now.

(yes, the Paddlefish has been named Flo, and works with 

Friends of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway )