JULY DOG & BEES!

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I will have the Bee TeeShirt at the Fall Art TourI'm artist/studio #21.

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

Another new woodprint for Fall Art Tour

This piece of wood

and my sharp little knives have 

held me captive for months.

Today, I printed a couple proofs

just to see what I was dealing with.

Yes, you will be able to see it in person at the Fall Art Tour, Stop #25

Remember...you can wear one of my prints!

There is still time.

Woodblock in progress

Due to my mental/emotional battle with a saddening world.

I seem to have packed this with a world into which I would escape.

Having simply run out of wood to cut, I guess it's time to get it ready to print.

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!!!"

Betty's Nightclub

Betty's Nightclub

10" wide by 11.25" high

Cherry woodblock printed on Japanese Kitakata paper
will be in McClain's Gallery.

Here's a look at the block itself.

My prints on other things

I have beautiful giclees of these prints,

but some people want to see them on towels, shower curtains, pillows, coffee cups, etc.

I don't want to get involved with inventory,

so I'm experimenting with FineArtAmerica.

They've done good blank cards for me

and now I'm willing to see how they handle my images on other items.

This is the Lone Rock Airport,
and that building is the Piccadilly Lily Airport Diner!

Dodgeville

Dodgeville does look good as a phone case!

 

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.

Proof of Betty's NightClub

11" tall by about 10.5" wide. 

Photos by cell phone.

Proof was hanging so not really square,

but I couldn't wait.

I needed to see what I cut.

I didn't do the best job of finishing the wood before I began, 

so it's troublesome to print

and the wood warps.

I will never again not begin a properly prepared board.

I have 9 more sheets of paper to print,
and then I will begin planning out the next block.

Rubbings from the Betty Blocks

These are only rubbings of what some are calling 

the Betty Blocks.

Five are completed,

so, the official printing is in the near future!

Lone Rock Airport

This is the whiteline woodblock print of the Lone Rock Airport

which was exhibited in 

the Cedarburg Art Museum Art of the Relief Print show.

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.

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....

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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!

Linda Kelen's Solo Show

Linda Kelen's Solo Show, "Anything but Driftless".....

November 4 through January 2, 2011...

at the Anaba Tea Room

2107 E. Capitol Drive

Shorewood, Wisconsin  53211

(414) 963-9510

The woodblock prints of Booger's 40 Day and 40 Night disappearance are exhibited,

which are all true supposed events, worries and happenings...except those that are very real.

It's an eclectic sampling of my arting, including the newest SardineTins.