STATUE OF LIMITATIONS

Looks like it's time (south of the border) to bring out the statue and let the pigeons and crows enjoy themseleves

JIMNASTICS #9 (A larger sketchbook in which to exercise now)

I.C.U. / I SEE YOU

VEGGIE

TOURIST

CARPAL TUNNEL

If it isn't one thing, it's another. I've been waiting for months for an appointment with a physician who's supposed to operate on my carpal tunnel. No call. Meanwhile, things in my right hand have gotten worse. Pain and numbness and I can hardly use my right for anything (and I'm right-handed). Ever buttoned your shirt with only your "other" hand, or signed your name with that hand? Come on, Doc, get in there and open that tunnel for me.

JIMNASTICS #8

Click on the image to enlarge

Car Pal Tunnel

Stack of Bones

JIMNASTICS #7

Click on the image to enlarge

Where's My Ride?

Self Portrait

We're All In This Together

Come Dance With Me II

Stack Of Heads

Well Rooted

Is That A Fly?

JIMNASTICS #6

Click on the image to enlarge

Plant in the studio

Come Dance With Me

Neighbor's Tree

Trying TO find My Ancestry

JIMNASTICS #5

Image will enlarge when you click on it

I started titling at this point: "High-Tech is big on our planet"

JIMNASTICS #4

You can click on each image to enlarge

I began this one by scattering the paper with nothing but random dots until some form began to show. Then I took over,

JIMNASTICS #3

YOU CAN CLICK ON EACH IMAGE TO ENGLARGE

Can you spot the mountain climber?

MORE JIMNASTICS

I spotted a profile among the marks as well as a mountain and brought them out.

Here I spotted some form of vegetable with lots of roots.

I had recently watched a documentary on a history channel about Aztec and Egypian stone figures and that influenced what I saw here.

I saw another strange mountain here.

RETIREMENT

/>

DEMON III LEARNS FROM DEMON II

Finally, the latest wood engraving, finished a couple of days ago. The title is: DEMON III LEARNS FROM DEMON II (5x7 in.) (edition of 30) $100.00 Click on the image to get a larger view

GERRY HAT TRICKS

I overheard some people, who seemed to be in my generation, talking the other day and I heard one of them talking about where they were going for an appointment. They said they were going to "Gerry hat tricks". Now that's a new one on me. At first I thought it was maybe the name of a doctor: Gerry Hattricks. Then I thought maybe they were bored and were going to some place called Gerry's to play a game called hat tricks. Maybe I should look into this to see if I can improve my aging carcass with some hat-trick games. Try this: Take the three words, gerry, hat and tricks, and put them together as one word: "gerryhattricks" and say it outloud. What did you hear?

PLURAL VERSION OF A WORD

    Words of single items and words for more than one of those items are often not the same words. For instance a single page in a book is a page but more than one page are pages (just one simple example). 

    I was thinking about the word goose and how the sound of that word, for the plural, was changed more than the addition of an s at the end. If the plural of goose is geese, why isn’t the plural of moose “meese”? The word goose existed in the Anglo-Saxon language for centuries and had, back then, been given the plural version. But the word moose was only in the English language in the 1600s because the Anglo-Saxons didn’t know it existed until then. The word moose was from the Abenaki language in North America. 

     This got me thinking of a way to bring this into a wood engraving and the result was to bring two geese and two moose together withe same spelling rule.  I'm engraving a block which will be printed and titled "TWO GEESE RIDING TWO MEESE"?    

                                                  

     I have engraved this block to a a point where I have printed the first proof and when it was dry I scanned it. Here's a copy. 

As I've mentioned in previous pages of the blog, my studio work has slowed dramatically. I have added years to my carcass and that has come at a price. (edition of 30 print size: 7 X 5 in.) $100.00 Click on the image to get a larger view

                                                 

                                                                     

ODDBALLS

Another series that was printed as a book (both limited edition by me and by Porcupines Quill) was ODDBALLS. If you click on this link then click on "Preview This Book", you can then scroll down to "Table of Contents and clidk on a name of an ODDBALL to see the wood engraving. The sequence of texts/titles and images in this link may be off.

"The Mad Trapper" wood engraving

ALTERNATIVE TO THE WEBSITE

I thought I'd put some links on my Blog that would bring up some of my work that was on my website that was shut down by TELUS. I'll start with the Porcupines Quill. The publisher of my "See What I'm Saying?" book: Click on "See What I'm Saying?" title then on that opening page click on "preview this book". When you scroll down you will see a list of the titles of the work in that series. Each is linked to an image. I know,it's complicated, but it's the best I could do.

"Fly Fiahing" wood engraving

TIMES THEY ARE A'CHANGIN' BIG TIME

I suppose this title links to my entries a few times back, but this one today has nothing to do with the pandemic. Two weeks ago I tripped and fell and had to be taken to the hospital. They found my hip had to be repaired. Well the operation was a week and 6 days ago and yesterday I was discharged. I thought it was too soon because I was having so much trouble moving around. I'm facing the changing times of moving around the house (instead of laying in a hospital bed). Moving on the main floor only (can't go down the basement) so, I'll need to arrange some help. Not easy to get to the studio either.