Nov 24, 2011 | Art
I’m planning to participate in the Saxapahaw Holiday Market this year — December 10-11. For the event I’ve come up with sets of place mats featuring some of my art imagery that I think would make great holiday presents. These are vinyl place mats that can be used indoors or outdoors and wipe clean with a damp sponge. They would be great for picnic or patio dining, good for messy kids, they’re even good under pet food bowls.
There’s one special set I came up with for folks like me who think the best way to decorate a home is to come up with things that don’t show dirt. The set features four images of dirt. You can’t camouflage a mess any better than that!
They’re 16 inches by 12 inches and come in sets of four. It’s a mat textured vinyl so it’s not slippery. Come on out to the Saxapahaw Holiday Market and get yours, or, I’ve just put up an Etsy store so you can order them through the mail. Click here to check it out.
Click the thumbnails below to see the sets.
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Leaves place mats #1
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Leaves place mats #2
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Bark and Lichen place mats
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Underground Dirt place mats
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Mpale leaves place mats
Nov 24, 2011 | Dogs
The Gerret, ever vigilant
Messed up my back last week so I was up early this Thanksgiving doing a soak in the hot tub. Thankfully Gerret was there to make sure nothing bad happened.
Oct 30, 2011 | Art, Dogs
Autumn, Gerret, Miro
Here’s a cool thing. It’s a web site called Art for Conservation where you can order archival quality prints of work by artists like, well, myself. What’s cool about it is that a portion of every sale goes to support conservation causes. (Note I said “conservation causes” not “conservative causes.” I realize there was a time when conservatives wanted to conserve things, but that’s not now. I could say more but it would ruin the moment.)
The Art for Conservation site let’s you choose a size and paper quality so your order can match your budget and the space on your wall. You can even order large stretched canvases. And not only will you help support conservation causes, but you’ll help to feed Gerret, Maggie and Irene. So this holiday season, buy American art. It’s the progressive thing to do.
Oct 26, 2011 | Dogs
The biggest problem with dogs is that they live in a parallel time/space continuum. They take a lifetime relationship and condense it into eight-, or ten- or twelve-years or so. As a result, you find your emotional relationship with your dog concentrated, and, eventually and inevitably, your emotional loss magnified.
It’s painful but it’s a good thing. Or it’s a good thing but it’s painful.
Sorry, but I have to think about losing a dog in these rather analytical terms because it’s hard for me to get more personal than that when I’m not wearing sunglasses.
I had two friends lose their dogs yesterday. Above is Cheyenne. My sister’s dog. Cheyenne was 16. Below is Honey, our friends Cheryl and Richard’s dog. Honey was 13. I’m thinking my sister and my friends have been very lucky.
Oct 26, 2011 | Art
Just got some pix to share of the exhibition “Natural Wonders” at the University of South Dakota, my undergrad alma mater. The show features four alumni, Joseph Broghammer, Jess Elofson, Julie Niskanen and myself and is up until Friday, October 28.
I submitted a series of banners for the exhibition. Technically they’re created for woodland display, but I thought they might have enough manners to clean up and go to town, especially in a large space like this. Judging from the pictures the gallery staff did a great job of displaying them. Thanks to Alison and her people.
I have to confess that this gallery, the fellow alumni in the exhibition and pretty much the entire faculty at USD all post-date my tenure at Vermillion (where the University is located) by several generations, so they probably don’t remember how we used to trudge 30 miles in waist-deep snow to study art in sod huts by the flickering light of a cow dung stove, but Menard, Packard, Wold, Aldren, Knaus et al. did a pretty good teaching job anyway. So here’s a shout-out to them, too.
