The Religionator....pounded aluminum icon

(I had to see it....)

(3 3/8" tall...the relief is too deep for the scanner, so this is the best look I can give you right now.)

Aluminum Poundings

(chasing tools from Rene Bluhm on Ebay)

QuadruPedal...the event

If you are planning on riding the 35, 55, 86, or God forbid, the 100 mile QuadruPedal Century on May 6th, AND
you want to receive this year's special T-shirt designed by artist Linda Kelen (me)

http://www.absolutearts.com/kelen/ ,

we need to have your electronic or paper registration in our hands by next Wednesday (that's when we place our T-shirt order).

I think it's now too late...but you can give it a try....


To register online: http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1420256

To register the old fashioned way (print and send) : http://www.ichs.net/quadrupedal2007signup.pdf


Remember that all proceeds go to support the Iowa County Humane Society
Please consider joining us in the cause.

Would you like to help us promote this event? Please consider printing our poster and pinning it up at your work or gym: http://www.dairylanddare.com/dld2007/ICHSposter_ver2.pdf

Ride on,

-Stew

Quadrupedal woodcut--1st, 2nd rubbings

(Found a piece of basswood in the basement...
softer than I would have liked it to be...
but...
well....
no time to be fussy.
You can follow along with these rubbings...)

(April 6th rubbing)

Quadrupedal

(what I'm working on now)

King George

(artist proof #1...on 10 x 13 inch Rives Lightweight paper..$55)

BirdMan

(BirdMan, artist proof #3...2007...printed my me, with archival inks, on Rives Lightweight paper)
...this began as a monoprint.

I'll sell it for $55.00.

Man Wonders

Another one of my drawings...

BirdMan

Over the past several years,

I've been entertaining myself by drawing a world from monoprints, in and out of the computer....

I'm beginning to make prints of them......

You here for the Elves? ? ? ?

...they're just a couple posts below . . . .

Metamorphosis...Number 1

One of the results....from my participating in a colored pencil testing/discussion panel.

Metro Elves

I just found my "photographs" of the Elves that annually moved into
the local gallery/art supply shop...
MetropolitanArt, which, sadly, no long is.

(special photograph of actual Elf in the Dodgeville workshop, made by Linda Kelen)

Every once in a while, I'd get into doctoring up photographs...
mostly for me, and some very close friends...
but, now and then I do something special for someone.
I painted a sign for the gallery, which said, "Elves Shop Here"....
and to PROVE it....(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."

"These 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)."

Photographer....with View Camera.........in soap

This may be the oldest bar of soap I've got.

(Photographer with 8x10 Deardorf View Camera...carved out of bar of soap...1974.)

Carved Soap.......Naked Lady

(Naked Lady on a Couch....carved bath-sized bar of Ivory soap)

I'm putting all my soap at Carved Soap.

Convent Gallery Show...Breaking the Habit ! ! ! !!

I just got back from the Convent Show...Breaking the Habit...

opening tonight....
it's a really good show....
great work...energy...lots of good minds here.....
go see.... http://www.culturechurn.com/

The Religionator

(Official Religionator portrait is in the Convent Gallery Show...Breaking the Habit.)

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.

October Art Shows

(the Religionator)FallArtTour and Breaking the Habit

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

Small Dog of Power

The nature of some beasts
is behavior beneath...
the Small Dog of Power.
"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." Linda Kelen
"Wedding Procession led by the Small Dog of Power.
At one time, a more common sight at dawn, this and other traditions of the Driftless Area
have been forced, by modern man's activity and expansion,
into deeper seclusion." Linda Kelen

Sovereign

(Sovereign)(Well Defended Sovereign)