FALL ART TOUR !

The Cedarburg Art Museum now has a selection of the small whiteline prints.

 
This year, I'm Artist # 21 on the FALL ART TOUR.

Since 27 of my works are in the 
Cedarburg Art Museum 
until November 8th when the show closes,
I printed little bits of the more detailed blocks
just for this weekend.

8" X 8" painting

I'm way overloaded.  I wasn't thinking, and agreed to do an 8" canvas 

for Mineral Point's Shake Rag Alley Art Lottery in the Lind Pavillion.

So I did one painting.

Not what anyone probably wanted,

but if I'm doing it for free, to give away,

for someone to be assigned it

as their prize for buying a $50.00 ticket

whether they want it or not,

I'm doing what I feel like at that particular time.

Well,

I couldn't see giving it away.

Not this one.

Not to be a prize for someone who may not want it,

condemning it to a garage nail on a dark wall

where mice might nest on the stretcher

between canvas and wall, 

until years later the pissed stained canvas aroma

results in it being tossed into the bottom of a cardboard box

that will carry a leaky garbage bag to the dump

protecting the car trunk from being

saturated with the seepy composting juices

and to be tossed out with the trashes??? 

Nope.

I'm keeping this one.

So, I painted another one.

Damn.

Can't give this one away either.

So, after learning that the Lind Pavillion is because of John Lind, 

now feeling a NEED to offer up something if only for him and Carla,

on September 30th, on a third 8" canvas,

I challenged myself to paint one in the time left between 2PM and sundown.

I did it.

I will give this one away.

It exists solely to be given away

to be the prize for someone who bought a $50.00 ticket.

I attached a note telling the tale of why it exists

and stated that if the new owners find they do not enjoy my painting,

they should contact me.

I will be happy to take it back! 

(OK, yes, I still have a hard time letting go of my works.)

CrossRoads Coffeehouse Art Opening

I've got two pieces in this CrossRoads coffeehouse show,

and yes you can get there!

Cedarburg Art Museum---the Art of the Relief Print

The Art of the Relief Print
September 2 - November 8, 2015
Opening Reception September 12, 7-9 pm

 at the

 Cedarburg Art Museum

W63 N675 Washington Avenue
Cedarburg, WI 53012 

Wednesday – Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm, Sunday 12– 4 PM  

info@cedarburgartmuseum.org      262-377-6123

Twenty-nine of my pieces are on exhibition 

with the spectacular works of S.V. Medaris and Ray Gloeckler.

It's a good, strong show.

Twenty-five miles north of Milwaukee, it's well worth a visit.

The show will be up through November 8th.

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.

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.