Happy birthday to me.

Happy birthday to me.

Happy birthday dear Chris.

Happy birthday to me.

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I thought of this line for a self portrait:  “I look like someone I used to know” and it kept repeating in my head and I could almost hear the music to go with it.  So I thought that it must be a line out of a song I know.  My first guess was Bob Dylan, but after checking with google, I discovered it was pretty close to a line from a Wilco song … “Handshake Drugs”.

self portrait - I look like someone I use to know

Here’s another great line from a Wilco song that i just heard although i must have listened to the song “Misunderstood” 100 times before:  “short on long term goals”

I’ve been on vacation (and will be going away again next week), but hope to get some new prints rolling out soon.

A week or two ago, I spent a couple of days at the Equus Run Vineyards near Midway, Kentucky (I was participating in the Francisco’s Farm Arts Festival held at the winery).  It was a beautiful day on Saturday (Sunday was not so beautiful) and I made this print. 

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The last thing I want this blog to turn into is a place for me to complain about not having any enough time, but working full time in between traveling to art shows doesn’t leave much time for anything except the essentials.  I knew making a woodcut a day would not be possible every week, so i’ll just have to keep carving as i get the chance.  Here is a print I drew from the back of my booth at the Wells Stree art festival in Old Town Chicago.  (as a side note, I have a birthday coming up and am heading for old town myself)

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Here are some prints that I carved at my booth during the Columbus Arts Festival.  Two were drawn at the arts festival and one was drawn the week before at my wife’s parent’s farm in Henderson, Kentucky.

Campbell's barn

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street scene - columbus

i’ll be spending the next few days getting ready for the Columbus Arts Festival.  Come see me if you are in the area.  I’ll probably get caught up with my carving at the festival.  Then i’ll print and publish when i return.  let me know what you think about the first week.

We went to my wife’s parent’s farm in Henderson, Kentucky for the Memorial Day weekend.  Me and my daughter took a drawing trip around the farm on a golf cart.  Here is one image from that trip.  (A few more will follow in the next week or two)  I didn’t do any research, but was told this is a “Western Kentucky Cicada” and they come out every seven years.  We loved hearing their song while we were down there.

cicada

This drawing was started (on site) on 26 May 2011 and I finished the drawing and carving on Saturday  28 May.  I’ve seen more sunrises and sunsets in grocery store parking lots than I care to think about right now (I’ve worked in a grocery store for a long time and have worked all sorts of crazy shifts).

i’ll be away from the computer for the weekend. hope to have several new prints to post when I return.