Linda Kelen's Artings at CrossRoads Coffeehouse

CrossRoads Coffeehouse, a good place to recharge,

is showing postcards from the Garden of Eden, which are part of my Ephemera of the Driftless Area artings...

along with some White-line wood prints...AND my SardineTins!

        

All of the show cards now have:

stamped on the backs.

chased/repoussed copper spoon #3

I forgot to get its measurements...

I think no more than 5.75" long...

I'll get exacts and post them later on...

I'll tell it's story later...

right now I'm just wanting to get it up to keep going with a conversation.

more later..

Watercolor in Progress

I was trying to decide between turning this into a multiple color woodblock print
or just stick to one color...but, it needed to get out fast....

(WakeMaker...in progress)

this is the first watercolor I've done since before the house burned down....(it's laying in a flat-file drawer)
it is interesting that I used to think 22x30 was a huge piece of paper....
now I'm wondering why I started on something so small.
It's not done...

SardineTins for Woman Made Gallery

Pounded (chasing/repousse) sardine tins...

re-assembled with necessary materials: which might be copper, steel, aluminum, leather, a paperclip or two...sometimes glass eyes...and a little paint....

They will be in the
Woman Made Gallery's "and You Think That's Funny?" show...
January 23rd-February 26th

SardineTin#10...7"wide, 4"high, 1.5"deep ($1200)

SardineTin#11...5"wide, 5"high, 1.15"deep ($900)

SardineTin#12...3.25"wide, 7"high, 1.15"deep ($1000)

Artist Statement: "My arting has to do with whatever is in front of me,
although, I do seem to have an on/off relationship with fish...RedHerrings in particular...
which I've never been able to see as stinky fish to avoid, but beginnings of fit and beautiful and humourous visions.
Sardines, a relative of the herring, travel in wonderful containers."
Written for the show, but was lost.