The Pig

....He's under 5 feet tall at the top of his ear...

His job is to let people know when LocalChoice is open...

and what's "special"...
living in the market when he's not working.

I make odd signs just for me...

My first for someone else was a tabletop salt&pepper sign for

HerbsSpices&More in Arena Wisconsin...

(there's a picture in the emails I'll find and post)
When LocalChoice started to happen in Spring Green...

and I was asked for just a road-side sign.....

(I'll post the original drawings...which will give some idea of what happened.)

It's almost a year now.

I finally got a camera...so now you can see.

He's been named Franklin.

Green Bridge 2007

I finally got this scanned and assembled to show you...

7 x 32 inches on Mulberry paper.

One of my most favorite places to just be....

It will be framed and present at the 2007 FallArtTour.

Sardine Tins #5 and #6....and a Honeybee

This is the what happened to my poundings after meeting up with Kirsten Skiles...

Sardine Tin #5

the first sawed-out Bee....

Sardine Tin #6

Chasing Tools

THE best tools you can buy, are those made by artists who know how to use them.
Latest tools are from Kirsten Skiles, artist/blacksmith:

they were left over from a tool making workshop, which I will take when she does one again.
Kirsten's arting is simply wonderful...
I'll post links to a few pieces...railings, wall pieces....she's good...really good.

Friends told me about her months ago,
but, I ran into her/her arting on my own
with my pounding curiosities.
I met her the first time when I bought the tools....
and I met her husband, Bill Fiorini,
making a powerful duo....
(Bill also raises amazing finches)
I'm really happy to have made their aquaintance...love their energy.

These are the tools I got from Rene Bluhm...gold & silversmith...

go see what he can do with these....
his site loads slow on my 26.6-28Kbps connection...but it's worth the wait.

(12-27-07...here's the latest work in progress with all these tools.)

HoneyBees

latest poundings:

Bee1..1.25 " x 1.32", copper (all poundings so far are works in progress)

Bee2...1.34" x 1.32", copper

Sardines Tins

sardine tin #1

Sardine tin #1, completed and waiting for it's support

SardineTin #1, done...

It's at NoRules Gallery...Spring Green, Wisconsin, 588-7509...$65.00...and has been sold!

sardine tin #2

sardine tin #3

ardine tin #4

...woke up thinking about #4...and gave it one last good pounding to puff it's body out a bit...

now it's done...for a while.

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.