Hotel room wood print

I'm letting the Cross Plains Main Street Reconstruction Survival Map rest for a bit,

so I uncovered this block which has been waiting for me. 

I will be teaching

 Whiteline Woodblock Printmaking again this year at the Peninsula School of Art.

June 11, 12, 13!  9AM to 4PM

Workshop ID PD1507

Whiteline woodblock printmaking at Peninsula School of Art, 2015

I'm teaching it again!

at the Peninsula School of Art, June 11, 12, 13 ! !
(Workshop ID PD1507)

I've been SO busy,

I've yet to organize my blogs, and update my LindaKelen-woodprint blog,

so HERE is where you can see a collection of my WhiteLine wood print posts.

Wood will soon be assembled for the next couple of new blocks,

the progress of which will be posted as I go along.

If you've got questions or concerns, send me a note.

I have begun working on a block of Shina Plywood.

Right now my mind is being held hostage by a Paddlefish.

Penninsula School of Art Print Fair

At the Peninsula School of Art...

in Fish Creek, Door County, Wisconsin

this Saturday, 1pm - 3pm,

you can attend

 the Print Fair with woodcut  artist, Linda Kelen...(me)

This event is free and open to all families and  community members. 

Try your hand at your own woodcut print and take home  a small masterpiece. 

For more information, please visit: https://www.peninsulaschoolofart.org/events.html 

or call 920.868.3455.

Guenzel Gallery Print Fair

"In conjunction with the Guenzel Gallery exhibition, Out of the Woods, 

join us for a free print fair with participating artist Linda Kelen 

and create a small woodblock print. 

All materials provided."

 It's happening this coming Saturday in Fish Creek...

Door County, Wisconsin...

so I've been cutting wood and printing the blocks as fast as I can 

to show what's possible to do in a short amount of time. 
I'm using 1/4" and 3/8" Shina Plywood.

I'll post them here as I finish them.

An ExLibris print 

seems (to me) to be a perfect end goal 

for whomever might want to pick up a knife.

 So.....we'll see what happens.

Out of the Woods... Contemporary Woodblock Prints Show

I'm just back from teaching WhiteLine Woodblock Printing 
at the Peninsula School of Art...
I'll post pictures from that later.

Their "Out of the Woods" 

Contemporary Woodblock Prints show is up!

August 22 through October  18, 2014

Kay McKinley, their gallery director did a terrific job of showing the wide range of wood printing 

through work of 

Mary Azarian, 

Betsy Bowen, 

Charles Woodruff Coates, 

Ellen Heck, 

Emily Hoisington, 

Carl Homstad, 

Brian McCormick, 

Andrea Rich, 

Nick Wroblewski, 

me, Linda Kelen , (also my blog of woodprints only)

and Richard Steiner, who will be there in person Sept 5-10, lecturing on the 9th.
I took photos, 

but the Peninsula School of Art link is great and ready right now!

And THEN....

On September 20th

In conjunction with the Guenzel Gallery exhibition, Out of the Woods, 

join us for a free print fair with participating artist Linda Kelen 

and create a small woodblock print. 

All materials provided.

DogFish...whiteline woodprint

The beginning is the tricky part, 

finding what I cut...always a bit scary 

as I usually get going with the knife, 

cutting more and differently than I intended....

so there will be surprizes....

good surprizes, bad surprizes, 

and always at least one "what was I thinking".

It's a new block, larger block, and of poplar, a wood I've not used before.

It's done.

I'll be teaching at the Peninsula School of Art, in Door County.

Linda Kelen Teaching at Peninsula School of Art

I've got so much going on,

I forgot to post about the WhiteLine Woodblock Printmaking Class I'm teaching this summer!

These are WhiteLine Woodblock prints:

The one thing I just love about whiteline prints is that no two can be exactly the same.

I'm going to try to be armed with multiple prints from a few select blocks. 

Print #2 of Mill Creek at Coon Rock Road is about done now. 

Paper is too wet for me to continue, 

so I snapped the photo with my cell phone to show you.

Here's Print #2 of Mill Creek at Coon Rock Road, 

fresh off the block.

(I'll do my homework here, and get more of these prints up for you.

Can't believe I've not posted more of them!)

 This is the third print from this block

and there will be two more, one of which is already sold.

 It's done, but I like to remove prints from their blocks 
first thing in the mornings.

Yes. 
I started a blog about this, 
specifically to post the prints,
but somehow got teetered off into printing, painting, or whatever else it is that demands my attention.
(I'll make a point of loading the site with more up to date work)
I've been posting some in one of my FaceBook albums, which you can visit in the mean time.

Collagraphy at the Peninsula School of Art...and MOWA

I've started a blog, LindaKelen-metalprints

where you can see what some of my collagraphs look like.

I'll be instructing how I do this at the Peninsula School of Art in July.

I follow the safety-first collagraphy system of 

Carol Robertson and Robert Adam's book 

INTAGLIO.

(My largest WhiteLine woodprint is in the MOWA show.)

the Peninsula School WhiteLine Woodblock Printmaking Workshop

I got so involved in this Peninsula School of Art workshop...

we really got moving, covering a lot of ground...

I  never thought about documenting the step by step

so I could later say, "here, look...this is what we did."

Well, I got some to show a little bit...

mostly, I was amazed at what we accomplished...

and what all I learned from them...

which was the real surprize.

Here they are" Joan, Anne, Sue, Anne,Donna & Donna.

Peninsula classrooms are simply great.

 

Joan had done more linoleum cutting than wood, so the pine I brought was like cutting through butter.

I wish I had the presence of mind to photograph of ALL the final prints everyone did.
Once they were all flattened, they took on a real presence....
yeh, wish I could have slowed me down...
get me arting, and I fire up, tending to forget some of the non-arting things that I should be doing.

Donna did a great duck besides this landscape:

Sue and Anne cut the same scene into earlier blocks...which of course I didn't take snaps of....

j

 

Donna was fearless.

I wish I got a picture of Anne's last block,
on the large pine I brought....
complex....we ran out of time,
so she would be completing it on her own.
It's going to be a wonderful piece.
Anne has official Japanese woodblock printmaking under her belt, so it was interesting to see how she took to this process.
(I was envious of her working orderlines)



OH...and on the last day, Joan saw to it that we got to have a Cherry Pie.....geez.......

Yes...me.  
This was great.  
I want to do it again.  

Thanks, Anne, Anne, Donna, Donna, Joan, and Susan...you were a great class.
You really got a lot done...I think you learned a lot.
You caught on well,  you kept your knives sharp....your prints were wonderful.
 I hope you print those blocks again...and keep going.  
Cut and print another....you felt that thrill that grows as the print develops...............
it gets better.  
Keep me posted!