2018 new paintings

I'm not sure I did any paintings in 2018, until these popped out.
If I find any, I'll post them here, below these four.

untitled

(this is the end of Clay Hill Road~I live near here. )

oil paint

untitled

(Waukegan, Illinois to Fort Atkinson Wisconsin.

The sign says "firewood") 

oil paint

(Long horn and some snow) 8" x 8" oil painting One end of Oak Park Road,  Mineral Point 8" x 8" oil painting 

I was having trouble deciding which 8"x8" painting to donate to the

Spring Green Area Artist Coalition

so I did another,

which perhaps I would let go.

This is the Lone Rock Airport & Piccadilly Lily Diner

 Well, might have to paint one more.

Driftless Area Landscape Paintings

I told them I would paint two for their Spring Green Area Artist Coalition fund raiser.

It's a lottery.

$30.00 gives you a certificate, 

which when picked, allows you to have your pick of ALL the 8"x8" canvases 

created by local area artists. 

I keep reminding myself that offering these is a good thing, for me.  

It does get the babies out and visible, 

since they are seen by no one on my walls, 

except during the Fall Art Tour. 

I don't have a gallery.

SO, this is a good thing.....

I do wish I would be able to make the frames for them....

which might make this giving them away easier. 

I do make good frames.

County Fair paintings-the Pigs

 It's only a cell phone picture, but you can sort of get the idea. 

Below you can see the frame I'm making for it.

That's "Iowa" in the top frame.

Below is "The Pigs".

I don't have a photo of it in it's frame yet.

I do have prints of "The Pigs"..

Another road trip painting

Road trip

First in a series of paintings from a road trip to Iowa.

oil on material on board-10"x17.25"

"ready to build", oil painting

When it's really dry and varnished,

I'll get it photographed properly.

(It's 14" high and 18" wide,

on linen, on board)

"Chaos Mountain", oil painting by Linda Kelen

This 8" x 8" oil painting

will be among many other canvases

from which you will be able to select one for yourself,

for a mere $30.00.

Oil on canvas, entitled "Chaos Mountain".

Intended to be given away to this fun raising event in 2015, 

but I was not ready to part with it then. 

I actually painted two of them. 

This was the second painting, and actually the better painting.

The first one, for me, is the real place.

"Serpent's Tail" oil painting

REPLACING "Serpents Tail" 
in the Spring Green Area Arts Coalition fund raiser will be:
This 8" x 8" oil painting,
by Linda Kelen, 
entitled "CHAOS MOUNTAIN"

will be among many other canvases 

from which you will be able to select one for yourself, 

for a mere $30.00. 

Originally, I was going to offer the "Serpent's Tail", below,
but decided "Chaos Mountain" was more appropriate for this time.

Garden of Eden

 The Religionator, oil on linen, 30"x20"

StoryTeller, oil on linen, 20"x30"

PIne Mound Holsteins

12" x 20", oil on linen.

Pine Mound Holstein, 

16" x 24", Oil on Linen. 

It will be hanging in the Spring Green Chamber of Commerce office 

until I bring it back for the Fall Art Tour.

 It will be for sale... 

but not just yet.

Caramel Inspector, Winnetka,Where Eagles fish, 7 deer

These are only cell phone photos. 

I'll post better jpgs when I get official photos of them.

Arena and down the road

Real photos to replace cell phone snaps of two paintings.

 Arena, 12"x12", Oil on Linen.
Arena prints are available here.

Red Roof Schoolhouse, 12"x12", Oil on Linen.
Red Roof Schoolhouse prints are available here.

Seven Deer

OK. I'm still painting.

I have to do another.

Small Oil Paintings

"Weary Traveler"

8"x8", oil on linen, "Where Eagles Fish"

This is one of the places in Sauk where one would see eagles, 

if the eagles were around.

Oil on Linen, "Stroller"

 

"Monkey"

8" X 8" oil painting on linen

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.)

First painting on new blog.

Now I need a blog just for the paintings.  It begins today, with this one, so I can see what happens when fine tuning Blogger. 

 IF I fine tune.  

It might be just fine as it is.

More later.