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Yes, folks, it is true. The Kisers are finally getting things together and hosting an Open House for the Holiday Shopping Season. If you are in the West Liberty area, please stop by and see us!
Saturday, December 3: 1:00pm-600pm at the Kiser Studio Parlor Gallery
There will be a multitude of new and familiar items for sale – for yourself or for gift-giving: Stoneware & Raku sculptures, vases, Morticia Pots, and functional organic pieces, Giclees, Prints, Greeting Cards, & a 2012 Calendar of art images you can order. There will be incense, burners, oils, and accessories, individually or in sets ready to give.
You can preview some of the paintings and prints here on our website Gallery Shoppe and in the Kiser Art Gallery on Yessy. We may add some images here to whet your appetite as well!
Stay tuned, and do Contact Us if there is an original or one-of-a-kind sculpture you’d like to buy in advance. It will give us the means to create more originals before the Open House!
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~From Dauna’s corner of the Studio
Oil painting in progress, begun in July of 2011.
This image is of an old farmhouse behind the family farm in Minnesota. The farmhouse belonged to my Great-Great Aunt and Uncle, whose descendents moved about a mile away, off to the right of the large clearing (and down the hill).
Childhood memories almost always involve this old house; playing in it until the floors fell through and it became too dangerous, or role-playing around it in the woods down the hill behind and to the left of it. Behind the house and down the hill is the Crow River, one of the few rivers in the world that flows north. Spring flooding is normal, but the heavy floods of 1965, 1997, and 2010 brought the river part way up the high hill, across low-laying farm fields, and through the town of Delano.
These pictures illustrate the progress of this painting. It is from a photograph taken in 2007. Today the house nearly completely degerated with time. The lush greens of Minnesota vegetation and trees are evident in the painting although most of the details and highlights in the fields and trees are yet to be added. Layers and layers of transparent colors create the thick depth of the woods behind and beyond the house.
The next step is to finish the house. Several subtle colors and the raw planks that make up the walls have yet to be detailed. The final steps will be to fill in the tall grasses in front of the house and then highlights in both the trees and fields.
Below shows some of the steps in the creation of the image. I’ll add more pictures as the painting progresses.
The newest Colored Pencil work from Marty Kiser. The title pretty much says it all, but just in case you don’t quite get it, think politics — special interests — voices — laws. Those few voices have a large influence on the laws that affect the many of us. They can influence laws that affect your healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, unemployment benefits, or taxes. If those lobbyists represent big corporations, like, let’s see, health insurance companies, they might influence the making of a law that makes it possible for them to decline your healthcare claim. If they represent big oil companies, those big oil company lobbyists pressure political lawmakers to pass laws that give those big oil companies subsidies while you get to pay for them with your taxes. See how that works? 
The average person only has one regular voice with which to influence a politician (and who cares about one little voice?), while a lobbyist can back their one voice with money (that something that many politicians worship). The solution for those many of us with only one regular voice? Use it! If all of us call, write, vote, voice our opinions, that one voice backed by collections of cash will have far less influence than many, many voices raised in unison.
This piece was finished in time to be displayed at StarDog Gallery for the BuckTown Bash in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, on July 29, 2011. The original is available for sale (we think it is still available…).
More images coming. To inquire about this piece or a giclee print, Contact Marty.
It is wonderful having an artist around the house. Why, they are so handy with so many things! For example, when it comes to repairs, an artist’s perception just cannot be beat. Auto repairs are often the most frustrating, as they require one to be without the much-needed vehicle for what is sometimes an extended length of time. In addition, some repairs make our local law-enforcement officers happy. Makes the artist’s wife happy, too.
Presenting…. Artful Repair #34. A rear-view perspective.
You, too, can have your own rear-view perspective in an artfully repaired composition. Only $500.00 gets you this magnificent view encased in beautiful, shiny silver material. You’ll be the talk of the neighborhood, the town, the local lodge, or even several city blocks. You can wear your new view right away (no drying-time necessary), and it is ready to accompany you where-ever you go.
See the artist’s wife for details and an affordable payment plan.
~DMKiser
The piece is based on an abstract painting called “Court Jester,” by Katie Hammerlink, a fellow artist at Stardog Gallery in Bucktown. Stardog is the gallery where Marty shows most of his work.
Marty began this drawing after Thanksgiving, 2010 and finished it on New Year’s Eve of that year.
“Grand Court Jester”
(Sin-Ick-Glee-Phun-Knee)
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