GREEN Thumb Rings at Egg Plant St. Paul!

I am proud to announce my GREEN Thumb Rings are now available at Egg Plant Urban Farm Supply!

Egg Plant is an amazing local Store in St. Paul. I had a blast taking my rings through the store on a photo shoot. Of all the photos, the winning one had to include a cameo from the Garden Gnome surrounded by Rosemary Topiaries (two of my favorite things)!

Check out Egg Plant for your holiday shopping when you are looking for that special something for someone who, I don't know, has a GREEN Thumb!

Did I mention Egg Plant is were I got my three chickens? Have I not mentioned I have chickens?

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Follow MGrillPainting on Instragram for more pictures of Goldie, Lulu, and Seahorse (the above chickens) and a few paintings as well.

RUMINATE

After individually scanning 34 individual 3" x 5"cards, I am happy to say that I have officially added my 2005 collection of gouache pigment linoleum prints, Ruminate.

Ruminate 28 Gouache pigment linoleum print

The series is printed on discarded card catalogs from the Wilson Library at the University of Minnesota. I was an art student at the U of MN, when I noticed one day that the scratch paper the librarians had distributed had type-written text on the back and have a hole punched through it. Being the ephemera enthusiast that I was, and still am, I took this opportunity to run (literally, as I assumed there would be other art students with the same idea) from station to station and collect the lot of these beautiful relics of libraries past.

History of the Land in Yellow

I hung on to the cards, waiting for the perfect project.  I began working on a painting History of the Land in Yellow (left) where the finishing touch was an image of a buffalo lumbering out of the composition. (click for larger image)

Cottonwood

Also, around this time received a scholarship to the Split Rock Arts Program Printmaking; East Meets West, where I studied the Japanese tradition of woodblock printmaking with gouache pigments. Cottonwood (right) is my favorite example of the prints I created during this workshop.

The combination of these two projects inspired the framework for the series that would be worthy of my treasured discarded card catalogs.

Ruminate is one of my favorite collections. The sole buffalo compliments the archaic typed and stamped cards. As a series, the repetitious herd forces you to ruminate the layers of text and pigment.

Ruminate

The entire series can be view here.

 

Prints for Sale!

Tiny Showcase is offering free shipping for ALL February orders!!! There are still prints of my showcase from December available and now sans shipping. Think about it: Tiny Showcase

 

Tiny Showcase

I am extremely honored to have one of my favorite paintings available as prints though Tiny Showcase. The prints are tiny compared to the original, but also only $20!

Tiny Showcase

Spring Map Oil and mixed media on canvas

Spring Map Oil and mixed media on canvas