"Love" Block Print

working on the final "love" block print...  18 prints and only 3 are passable....  two colors is difficult...  Now I know why these things are so expensive.  For every print you see the artist has thrown away a dozen...

Printing on Rice Paper

Tested a very expensive sheet of Japanese block printing paper today.  Remarkable for how soft it was. there in lied the difficulty!  Getting it on and off the block without it folding in and smudging the edges was nearly impossible.  Only one good print in the six...

The 1/2=0 is slogan I came up with for a line from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous "Half Measures Availed us Nothing....  in other words half the effort did not yield half the results.   Half in yielded no results.  It isn't really my experience with the program but I like the idea that the more you put in the more you will get out of the program, or anything really.  My experience though is that a lot can be gained from doing a little prayer work, attending a few meetings and doing some step work....  lots of people cost until they fully get it.  

A good video about print making papers

Very good video regarding the differences between popular print making papers.

Rainy Sunset Photograph

Prints now available!

Taken with a 1973 Konica Autofocus Camera

Seaside, Oregon

Signed

5X7 or 8X10

Framed  ($32/$54) or Unframed ($14/$18)

8X10 LINK

5X7 LINK

Lewis and Clark Photograph

Prints now available!

Taken with a 1973 Konica Autofocus Camera

Seaside, Oregon

Signed

5X7 or 8X10

Framed  ($32/$54) or Unframed ($14/$18)

5X7 LINK

8X10 LINK

Advance orders for next print run!

Place advance orders for these upcoming prints!

Special offer.  Place an advance order and receive a 20% discount.  

These editions will be signed  

Self portrait 8x10 

Image Size Aprox. 6x8

Watercolor Paper

$35.00  $28.00

ORDER HERE!

Wedding Cake with Lilies 5x7

Image Size Aprox. 2.5x3.5 

Watercolor Paper

$15.00  $12.00

ORDER HERE!

Zenith Kids  5x7

Image Size Aprox. 2.5x3.5

Watercolor Paper

$15.00  $12.00

ORDER HERE!

Free Shipping within US (including Hawaii and Alaska), Canada and Mexico.  $5 for overseas.  Each piece package unframed, without a mat. Foam board backing and plastic cover included.  

A 20% discount is given on all pre-orders because time of delivery cannot be confirmed.  Prints are in production.  

Place advance orders by emailing info@artofgdds.com

Preparing for a new series of watercolor portraits of people I admire

Marian Anderson

The aim in life is "not to be a party to a thing which, 

when the God Lord calls you, you won't have an

answer." 1957

Anderson extends her advice not just to race relations but all aspects of human society, urging people  to reach out to any "black sheep" relatives they have and try to understand them, for in so doing they may very well "save a soul." 

I think she was talking about learning to accept people on a human level.  

click here for a page that has a speech made by Marian Anderson in the 1957

her words and her spoken voice are as moving as her songs

I am amazed by the character of this woman, as a person and as an artist.  She will be my first subject......

love lives here wood block print

Just posted these 2 prints for sale on the website.  $85 ea.  The last 2 of a limited edition print run of 11.  The block was recut so this is your only chance to own an original.  Printed on BFK paper (the best for wood block prints) with high quality block printing ink....  signed, of course...

http://shop.artofgdds.com/Love-Lives-Here-Original-Wood-Block-Print-love.htm

submitted to the publication Grapevine today...

submitted to the aa grapevine today.....  I hope they use it!!!!!!!

shop.artofgdds.com

We have contact!  LOL...  you can now buy my work through my website.  In most cases, atleast for the big stuff I will deliver it to you personally!

check out shop.artofgdds.com    All cards accepted through paypal.... cheers

Love this site, awesome stretchers.

http://www.simonliuinc.com/index.php

I love this site, great stretchers, thought I typically make mine.  Follow the link above if interested.

litro, anyone have any experience with these?

 Anyone have any experience with these cameras!!!????  We Wants One!

2008 RMIT Application Portfolio

 

Warning, there are a few penises drawn here and there in this gallery.

In 2008 I applied and was accepted to the masters in contemporary painting program at RMIT (Hong Kong campus.

As I prepare a much improved portfolio for PNCA I find these watercolours and drawings laughable yet endearing.

The fascinating thing is that I can already see what would develop into my style in these pics, especially the water colours.

I cant imagine presenting such an unpolished portfolio to anyone now but maybe that is what they liked about it.  

The full gallery is posted on my website:  WWW.ARTOFGDDS.COM

This is a link to just the gallery page:
gallery link:http://media129hh.onlineview.it/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=3755988

Fujiarts.com awesome site. LOVE woodblock prints. amazing

Fuji Arts from Ann Arbor is an amazing Japanese wood block print dealer.   Love their website.  I wanna learn all I can about this stuff.  Their inks and paper last centuries.  Some of the prints I saw at the Portland Art Museum are 300 + years old and still vibrant.  Amazing.

http://www.fujiarts.com/cgi-bin/main.pl

text from the fuji arts website.  I guess the above piece is a part of an auction.

Original Kamisaka Sekka (1866 - 1942) Japanese Woodblock print

First Edition Sekka Butterfly

Series; 1000 Butterflies

Cho Senshu

This Original, Sekka Woodblock Print - An incredible Kamisaka Sekka design from one of his fantastic contemporary print series. This print and the others offered in our auctions tonight are from a single series done by Sekka in 1904. Our original prints are from an original early 20th century release of the album. These beautiful butterfly designs are very rare and difficult to come by. These original Sekka prints offered tonight are incredible contemporary designs printed using the highest quality printing techniques, some with mica embellishments. They represent the pinnacle of Sekka’s career. Sekka woodblock prints are very rare these days and our offerings this evening are a great opportunity to collect works by this 20th century master.

Artist - Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942)

Size - 12 1/2" x 9 3/4"

Condition - In excellent condition overall as shown with fine original color and detail. No holes, tears, damage, repairs or other issues to report. Beautiful old paper. Some light paper remnants remain on reverse at left and right edges, edges only, from folio removal (not an issue). Note; the print was folded vertically as are all Sekka butterfly prints, now flattened. Sekka butterfly prints were folio presentations, so, all butterfly prints have this folio fold. An excellent example of Sekka's butterfly prints and a good choice for the discerning collector.

link to Sand and Sky ebook

If you have not taken a look please check out the ebook version of Sand and Sky, it works with any pdf reader or Ibooks....

Its $3.99.  Money raised is helping pay for the production of other artwork!  Support your local artist.  LOL

http://www.lulu.com/shop/gregory-duerfeldt/sand-and-sky-ebook-pdf-base/ebook/product-20723144.html?showPreview=true

mail me your thoughts and memories of moon river diner

The Ebook version of Sand and Sky has sold more units than I expected.  The images are very compelling.  The process had lead me to the decision to work on a book around photos I took then I was stranded in Hong Kong in 2008.  There are nearly 3000 photos for me to sort through.  I expect it to take another month.

I have found the Hong Kong book healing.  As I take a close look at each picture I am able to put certain things to rest.  Further the proceeds of the book will go to people who helped me get back home.  Its a way for me to get money to a few people who have been very patient.  Some of the pics are amazing.  I expect it to sell well.

With this in process I am already thinking about the next book, a book based on photos taken of Moon River Diner.  I'm hoping Michael Giannini, my partner and maybe even Linn, Mark and Marybelle Hu will participate.  There is a lot of good that can be taken from Moon River's experience.  I lot to be shown.  Maybe this might be a way to finally get the Hu's a small return on their investment.  They shelled out a lot of money and bought little more than a container full of troubles.  

If you were a moon river diner employee or patron and have antidotes or thoughts you want to send or even pictures you would like included please post them to this blog or email them to me at info@artofgdds.com.  I will be working them into the supportive text.


XO  GDDS

Leslie Jordan: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet (Trailer)

Just watched this and found it very inspirational.  a celebration of honesty.  I want this quality of glorifying life thru the details to encoupas my new book.

starting a new book. Pictures of hope by a Hong Kong Drifter

In 2008/9 I was stranded in Hong Kong.  Couldn't go back to Shanghai, couldn't afford the price of a plane ticket to Oregon (home).  39 years old, penniless and stranded.  I had lost everything in Shanghai.  I still had a phone with an 8 megapixle camera (a luxury left over from better times) and I occupied myself, found hope for myself in documenting the wonderful city I was stuck in.  This will be the first picture in the book, which will be basically a collection of photos taken at the time.  Me in the tiny hostel room I rented at first in Tsim Sha Tsui in a shirt I had stolen from a vendor, a self given haircut (with really bad scissors borrowed from the front desk and a beard due to saving funds (no money for a razor) and water lifted from a convenience store.  When I look at this knowing how lonely and destitute I truly was, I can't help but see a joyful determination to survive in my face.  I will survive!  I will smile down my dire circumstances and survive. 

The end result were 1000s of amazing pictures of people and places in Hong Kong.  And yes, my survival. 

Up the reed

RMIT Video Class Project

preview of Sand & Sky

http://www.lulu.com/shop/gregory-duerfeldt/sand-and-sky-hard-cover/hardcover/product-20724757.html?showPreview=true

Click on the link above to preview the new GDDS hard cover version of Sand and Sky!

Link to lulu

http://www.lulu.com/shop/gregory-duerfeldt/sand-and-sky-ebook-pdf-base/ebook/product-20723144.html

Sand & Sky

Ok, here it is, the PDF based version of my first ebook.  I've tested it on ibook and it works great.  download it and open it with ibooks.  not sure yet if it works with nook, but any pdf viewer will work.  Enjoy!

an old video of pics of seaside

herb and dorothy, very interesting

Just watched this film and feel guilty I didn't see it some time ago.  I wont wait to so long to see 50X50.  They made a life of collecting art and artists akin to the way i have made art my life.  Their generosity is compelling and very moving.  Its amazing what unselfish love can do.  They have given it all to the public to be viewed and discussed.  The best thing about the collection is that so much of it is not easily digestible.  Its work that represents, in many cases the artist's process or concepts that require thought and review.  Not the stuff typically spoon fed to the public for free.

Favorite pic of sunset

I have so many pics, thought I had lost this one.

Lost pic of cedar splinters

Always a joy to find a good pic of a sold project that you don't have well documented.

Cost of education

Many years ago I made a critical miscalculation . I thought I could drop out of OSU and come back to it later. 25 years later, after several failed attempts, I am still trying to figure out how to get back. How to get that done for myself. Today as I read over the info for several different programs it was the cost that overwhelmed me. 23 to 28,000 a year? Even if I could finance it how can I earn enough after to justify spending 90,000? How does anyone? Is there something I am missing here? How can make this work?

Maybe I'll throw a benefit art auction for myself..,,

Talking sculpture today made me think of my two fav artists, movana chen and antonio mak

Movana Chen is a vibrant artist who weaves her sculptures from paper, Antonio Mak passed on some time ago but his small, textured pieces are raw and full of life.  I plan on owning one some day.  He was remarkable for being able to build a scene. He threw art shows in old buildings, etc...  he lived his art

PNCA

Took a look at the Pacific Northwest Collage of Art today. It felt like home. I keep asking myself "why school?" Not sure I have the answer yet. I just want to do it. I want to be there. I want to give myself the opportunity to experience it.

Met a sculptor there named Katie Dunbar. Check her work out @ http://www.katiedunbar.com/

Love lives here

Sent out 10 of the 11 prints of "love lives here" to family as a "save the date"

Website

Continuing to update the website. Overwhelmed by how much work I have done and sold in the past few years.

Love Lives Here

Playing with wood block prints. My first official run. 11 prints. Two Color on BFK paper All Prints 8x11