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.

Woodblock Print #1 of Arena

It's done. 

This is one which will be in the Cedarburg Art Museum show.

Small Dog Whiteline Prints #3 & #4

The fourth print has been waiting on the block to be completed
since last year!
Today I completed it.
 Print #3 in progress:

 Print #3 done on block:

 Print #4 done on block:

They will be flattened, photographed, 

and one or both will go to Cedarburg Art Museum Show 

where I will be joining Ray Gloeckler and S.V.Medaris

 in the Art of the Relief Print show.

Whiteline Wood Print of Dodgeville

Print #2 from the Dodgeville whiteline woodblock.

It's just off the block, and needs flattening,

and a good photograph.

Hotel Room

This first one, is print #2, off the "hotel room" block.

13.75" x 21" is just off the block

and needs flattening,

and a good photograph. 

Creative Cartography

So, sometimes one must get creative with what one does with their abilities.

The News-Sickle-Arrow  Editor, Erin Vander Weele, wrote a good article to accompany the front page map.

A work in progress, the Black Earth Creek wasn't yet blue.

 

On May 21st, a full page of map was published

in the Summer Times pullout section

of the Isthmus. Wisconsin's alternative newspaper.

55,000 of them!

Trout Days

I've lots of chased/repoussed copper and sterling fish. 

Trout and otherwise that I have been meaning to complete.

This year I got sidetracked by a road construction map.

I did, however, experiment with the dullest of the fish.

Now, Mary of Crossroads Coffeehouse will be

appropriately adorned for Trout Days.

This, the third of the Aluminum cuff Bracelets,

may also be part of the Trout Days Adornments.

Hotel room wood print

I'm letting the Cross Plains Main Street Reconstruction Survival Map rest for a bit,

so I uncovered this block which has been waiting for me. 

I will be teaching

 Whiteline Woodblock Printmaking again this year at the Peninsula School of Art.

June 11, 12, 13!  9AM to 4PM

Workshop ID PD1507

Aluminum cuff bracelet donated

After so many hours working on the Road Construction Survival Map,

I found some time that I could think about what I could do for Bob's daughter Sarah.

He's holding a fund raiser for her medical bills. 

April 25, 2-11PM

Bob's BBQ Emporium
8164 Us Highway 14, Arena, Wisconsin 53503

I just couldn't donate something already done.

Sarah was heavy on my mind.

I needed to grab a hammer and pound.

This one of a kind, cold forged, chased, repoussed cuff bracelet of aluminum 

will go to a new home after the silent auction happening 

at Bob's BBQ Emporium.

for a fund raiser for Bob's daughter Sarah  

who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Map deciphers road construction in Cross Plains Wisconsin

I've been working on deciphering

the road complexities 

of the US Highway 14 (Main Street) Reconstruction

that began this month.

Not knowing it was happening, 

I wound up getting very lost just trying to get a cup of coffee,

and then got lost again on the way out.

Since I've got this ability to render visual order to chaos,

I thought I'd make a small, easy to understand map for CrossRoads Coffeehouse,

which grew, and grew, and grew some more,

until now it's almost officially printed.

I want it printed by Trout Days!!

Whiteline woodblock printmaking at Peninsula School of Art, 2015

I'm teaching it again!

at the Peninsula School of Art, June 11, 12, 13 ! !
(Workshop ID PD1507)

I've been SO busy,

I've yet to organize my blogs, and update my LindaKelen-woodprint blog,

so HERE is where you can see a collection of my WhiteLine wood print posts.

Wood will soon be assembled for the next couple of new blocks,

the progress of which will be posted as I go along.

If you've got questions or concerns, send me a note.

I have begun working on a block of Shina Plywood.

Right now my mind is being held hostage by a Paddlefish.

Another Kelen road painting.

Someday I'll get real photos of these paintings.

Oil on canvas.

Another Road Painting

Oooh, I think I'm catching on.

It's not done. 

Close, 

but look!

I think I'm making friends with the oil paint!

Road painting

Just completed.

Another road painting.

This cell phone picture

will be replaced by a real photo, when I get around to it.

VOICE of the River Valley

This painting of the Rock Wall on Y at ZZ

is on the cover of the VOICE of the River Valley,

a self supporting, very interesting local paper

found in various locations throughout the Driftless Area counties.

 

Each month, editor/publisher Sara Lomasz Flesch 

will have an article about whatever the cover is about,

plus more of why we like living here.

If you haven't found a VOICE of your own, you can read it on-line HERE
and you can read a little about me!
on pages 3 and 19.

The Paddlefish Represents Madison, Wisconsin

There's just no stopping this fish!

My largest sculpture, 

National Endowment for the Humanities supported,

represents Madison in 

National Geographic's 

top ten happiest cities worldwide!

Painting

Every year I agree to paint an 8" canvas

to be donated to the Spring Green Area Arts Coalition's "creative canvases" fund raiser.
The one above is for them...
although its colors are way off here.
The uprooted tree came from the Tornado.
It's nice to see the Moon.

There used to be a pine forest here,

until the Tornado.

(So curious....the painting directly above, now done, was small enough to be scanned,

the rest are photographed...and nothing really looks right.

I've got to figure this out.)

It's December 18th in Wisconsin, but no snow.
January 16th
We've had some snow.

Holiday Art Show in Frank Lloyd Wright's Wyoming Valley School

12 strong, unique artists star in

the first Holiday Show 

held in this unique building.

The opening was terrific.
A visually exciting show, well worth visiting!

Open through December 7th...

Thursdays and Fridays...3-5pm and Saturdays and Sundays 10am-5pm.

Come see the show, 

and wander about this wonderful school

that kids were once very lucky to attend.

(It's just a wonderful site, 

it glows

when the sun goes down!)

Paddlefish Visitation

FLO came over yesterday,

and will stay through the Fall Art Tour.

Many of you have known about the Paddlefish I carved for the

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant

Documentary "Rhythm of the River"

seeing it on television or in the news.

Well, she's here in my backyard...

after a really active summer 

attending numerous events 

bringing awareness to the Wisconsin Riverway.

 

HERE are links to it's beginning, 

and to some of the events she's attended

since helping Friends of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway.

I'll tell you more later in this blog, if I find the time.

I'm trying to ready for the tour.

In my attempting some order here,

I've discovered that my 7 Pound Betty

does NOT like her routine altered.