Lone Rock oil painting

The second of four I am doing 

so I can give two away to the Spring Green Art whatever it's called 

to raise money for the Arts.  

It's a good thing to do.

Lone Rock, Wisconsin

Paintings

This is the result 

of what happens 

when I work way too long 

on a single woodblock.

untitled

(this is the end of Clay Hill Road~I live near here. )

oil paint

untitled

(Waukegan, Illinois to Fort Atkinson Wisconsin.

The sign says "firewood") 

oil paint

(Long horn and some snow)
8" x 8" oil painting
One end of Oak Park Road,  Mineral Point
8" x 8" oil painting

Gallery Night in Madison Wisconsin

See it in person!

Gallery Night

October 5th

    

at the

ARTIST & CRAFTSMAN

203 west gorham

Madison, Wisconsin 

608-251-2977

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.

 

County Fair Paintings...pigs

I'm just starting to revisit county fairs for paintings.

 It's only a cell phone picture, but you can sort of get the idea. 

Below you can see the frame I'm making for it.

That's "Iowa" in the top frame.

Below is "The Pigs".

I don't have a photo of it in it's frame yet.

I do have prints of "The Pigs"..

So, what's so historic about Platteville?

Road painting

First one of several from road trip to Iowa.
oil on material on board-10"x17.25" 

"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)

Beginning a woodblock print

Under the watchful eye of 7 Pound Betty, 

now occupying the position of studio Muse, 

I begin the first official block of the Garden of Eden project.

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.

Paintings of Arena and down the road.

Real photos to replace cell phone snaps of two paintings.

 Arena, 12"x12", Oil on Linen.
Prints are available here.

 Korback Road at Y, 12"x12", Oil on Linen.
Prints are available here.

7 deer

OK.
I'm still painting.

I have to do another.

Where one might see eagles.

This is one of the places in Sauk where one would see eagles, 
if the eagles were around.

A small painting on linen.

Small Oil Paintings

One of these three is going to be offered up to the
Spring Green Area Arts Coalition.

8"x8", oil on linen, Peach Tree

8"x8", oil,  WearyTraveler

8"x8", oil, Monkey

drawings

Two are framed and hanging in the show at CrossRoads Coffeehouse, 

in Cross Plains, Wisconsin through September 10th.

The others are growing in numbers safe in my drawers.

Yes, the road construction has become unbelievable, but it's quite managable.

I'll try to update my Road Construction Survival Map 

so you can get there 

without fear of being headed to Canada, 

scooped up by machines, 

or lost forever in the Caverns of Hwy 23.

The others are beginning to grow in numbers in my drawers.

Drawings for CrossRoads Coffeehouse show

Framed and being delivered to Crossroads Coffeehouse in Cross Plains, Wisconsin for their next art exhibit.
More information coming.

Fourth of Four New Whiteline Wood Prints

I wanted to have four new prints for the Cedarburg Art Museum show.

Here is my artist proof of number four.

Measures about 9" x 24", 

and photographed on the block, which is why it's not square.

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.

Metro Elves

(I've gotten a lot of encouragement to repost this....so here are they are....Happy Holidays!
oh, these are photographs that I actually painted on...wish you could see the originals, which look way cooler in person than anything photoshop or digital manipulation could do.)

These are my "photographs" proving that Eleves moved into the local gallery/art supply shop, Metropolitan Art, which, sadly, no longer is.

Jeb tell this elf that he can't take her frame.
"that's what you Elves do...make things!
"Now put that back", she tell him
as she begins to get the idea that Elves might be difficult and hard to control. 
(Perhaps that is why there is only one Christmas a  year). 

(Special photographs of actual Elves in Santa's Dodgeville workshop, made by Linda Kelen.)

I painted a sign for the gallery-art supply store,
which said:
"Elves Shop Here."
Because some "town people" were not believers,
I made these pictures.
No one said another word.

"Jeb is pleased to see Elves use white gloves,
leaving no finger prints on paper. "

Elves lost their shopping list.

"Elves love cookies."

"Mega, (studio dog)........................................ 
is a handy mode of transportation."

"Some Elves are too short."

"After a successful shopping spree...
Elves carry the last of their supplies out to the sleigh....(parked around the corner)."

The Barn

(the barn....1991...might be late 1980's, but, it's the first time I painted the barn.)
(the Barn...1996)

(Barn, 2001)
........................never looked at them together like this....1996...that was the year the house burned down.