BillBoard!

I got sidetracked...and drew up a necessary billboard.

It's 25 feet long,

and seen from highway 18/151

as you drive west,

on your right/north side of the road,

shortly before the Dodgeville  Exit.

 

AND, 

it's lit up at night!!

It's just one of many that are popping up all over the Driftless Area.

 

KELEN woodprint, "Early Man" wins Purchase Award

On December 9th,
I was able to post:
So, I'm happy to announce,
my print, 
“Early Man,” 
has been accepted for inclusion in the Minot University 
Northwest Arts Center’s Americas 2018: Paperworks exhibition. 
 The juror was Linda Whitney.

 

 

 

And then, on February 14th, 2018

I posted:

 

"I'm REALLY HAPPY to announce 

that this print has won their purchase award!! 

I just found out!!!"

Driftless Area Landscape paintings

I told them I would paint two for their Spring Green Area Artist Coalition fund raiser.

It's a lottery.

$30.00 gives you a certificate, 

which when picked, allows you to have your pick of ALL the 8"x8" canvases 

created by local area artists. 

I keep reminding myself that offering these is a good thing, for me.  

It does get the babies out and visible, 

since they are seen by no one on my walls, 

except during the Fall Art Tour. 

I don't have a gallery.

SO, this is a good thing.....

I do wish I would be able to make the frames for them....

which might make this giving them away easier. 

I do make good frames.

So, what's so historic about Platteville?

Painting of Ridgeway, sort of Ridgeway.

"Ready to Build", oil painting

It's the only angle with which

the reflections of the wet paint 

weren't quite so bad.

When it's really dry and varnished,

I'll get it photographed properly.

(It's 14" high and 18" wide,

on linen, on board)

Early Man

First printed about December 11th, 2016, scanned by Picture Salon January 23, 2017

This 18.5 x 14.25" print

 is printed by hand onto 20.5" x 17" Kitakata paper. 

It's a tight fit onto the paper, but it does fit well. 

Not a fan of matting, because it many times reminds me of too tight underwear, 

I would float this. 

It is the first of 12 that I've got lined up to keep me out of trouble.

Early Man

Early Man

This 18.5 x 14.25" print

 is printed by hand onto 20.5" x 17" Kitakata paper. 

It's a tight fit onto the paper, but it does fit well. 

Not a fan of matting, because it many times reminds me of too tight underwear, 

I would float this. 

It is the first of 12 that I've got lined up to keep me out of trouble.

Early Man Hunting-beginning of the block

This is only about 1/12 of the block.

Not yet completely cut 

and going slow because I seem to be drawing it as I go,

changing my mind, adding things, eliminating things,

not following "the plan"

which makes it rather more challenging than normal,

but OH, so much more interesting.

Prints will b available and dry by the Fall Art Tour.

Pine Mound Holstein

Pine Mound Holstein, 16" x 24", Oil on Linen.

It will be hanging in the Spring Green Chamber of Commerce office

until I bring it back for the Fall Art Tour.

It will be for sale...

but not just yet.

Road painting

Just completed.

Another road painting.

This cell phone picture

will be replaced by a real photo, when I get around to it.

VOICE of the River Valley

This painting of the Rock Wall on Y at ZZ

is on the cover of the VOICE of the River Valley,

a self supporting, very interesting local paper

found in various locations throughout the Driftless Area counties.

 

Each month, editor/publisher Sara Lomasz Flesch 

will have an article about whatever the cover is about,

plus more of why we like living here.

If you haven't found a VOICE of your own, you can read it on-line HERE
and you can read a little about me!
on pages 3 and 19.

12"x12" canvas number 1

Last year, after painting two 8"x8" canvases as my donation to SGAAC 

My hope was to keep painting,

but worries of income ruled out any kind of experiments with unknown artings.

Painting is a form of arting which has always been a battle for me,

more along the lines of war....

with weapons of hair tipped long sticks,

I fight thick colors on a canvas battlefield.

THIS year, however, I am GOING to work my way through ten 12"x12" canvases

and hopefully discover if in fact this years donation was just another lucky fluke, or maybe I'm onto something here.

New Year's Eve in the Driftless Area

In hidden gathering places of the Driftless Area...
within the hour between the Old and New Years...
unusually powerful energies can be seen without their facades.

the Religionator, Edition Variation 3, giclee 7/35

Archivally varnished, Giclee of hand colored collagraph print...

"Religionator in the Garden, Edition Variation #3"

with golden edges ...

words are hand printed on the back....

"7th in an edition of 35" written in pencil.

2.5" x 3.5"

Driftless Area Land Conservancy--Silent Auction

L. Kelen absolutearts.com Portfolio

I am one of many artists who have donated art to the Driftless Area Land Conservancy... http://www.driftlesslandtrust.org/ for a silent auction being held at
the House on the Rock Resort...(near American Players Theater)
in Spring Green, Wisconsin...
Sunday, March 9th from 3-6pm
$30 per person reservation
Feel free to contact me through this website...
you can post a comment and it will get to me...
or the contact information on the driftlesslandtrust.org website.
Details:

All donations go to the Driftless Area Land Conservancy...which I fully support.
3-3:30...socializing, tasty hors d'oeuvres & dessert tarts, complimentary wine/coffee
3:30...Doug Cieslak, Executive Director..opening remarks, challenges met
4:00...David Lowe, researcher...Prehistoric Rock ARt of Southwestern Wisconsin
4:45...Silent auction/socializing continues until the 5:05 bell ending auction.
5:15...Mark Mittelstadt, president...anticipations...closing remarks.

That's the line up....
Other artists are:
Karen Bassler, Kathy Cahill, Pamela Callahan, Karen Fitzsimons, Kathy Halverson, Sue Moore, Lauren Thuli, Ramona Palzkill, Jeb Prazak, Sue Quale, Geri Schrab.
This is the best I can do...
contact me if you've got questions.

I've got everything else scribbled out on paper here
since, I've managed to misplace the invitation with all the details....
or MeMe ate it.

"Wedding Procession led by the
Small Dog of Power. Once a
common sight...this and
other traditions of the
Driftless Area have been
forced by mondern mans
activity and expansion
into deeper seclusion." Kelen 2008

"Accustomed to formal attire
when performing in St. Elmo's
Circus of Indigenous Animals
which traveled about the
Driftless Area...the Small Dog
of Power continues to dress
appropriately for various
processions." Kelen 2008

L. Kelen absolutearts.com Portfolio

New Year's Eve Custom

On the New Year's Eve, in some parts of the Driftless Area...

the Indigenous go door to door

asking in Rude Rhyme for cake or money.

When the wench does yelp
God us do help
Who knows what will be
In the year ahead of ye
There may be riches
Or there may be bitches
But what is in the air
Will our eyes dare
To let us breathe
and Let it all be

by S. Donnelly, December 31,2007

who very kindly allowed me to print it here.

October Art Shows

(the Religionator)FallArtTour and Breaking the Habit

(I'll update/post more, as pictures become web-worthy.)