RIck Bartow & Ken in Bartow's Studio

My wife and I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Oregon when I put on a Hunting Pouch workshop and gave a talk on the History of the American Hunting Pouch. Wonderful time. The Northwest coast is simply magnificant with the surf and sand, haystack rocks, fur trees clinging to the rocky shore.

We visited Rick Bartow, a Native American artist, affiliated with the Wiyot and Yurok tribes of Northern California. Bartow works with pastels mostly. His work can be found in several museum collections including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Arts in Indianapolis, IN, That’s where I first met him. A delightful person and a very talented artist. Look him up at the Froelick Gallery on the internet.

Here is a super video on Bartow and his work.

http://media.opb.org/clips/3032-american_indian_artist_rick_bartow

NEW DESIGN! RECORD OF MARRIAGE FRAKTUR

Personalized, Hand water colored and unframed $49
I have added a new design to my RECORDS OF MARRIAGE Frakturs in addition to my current designs. This RECORD OF MARRIAGE FRAKTUR is a wonderful way to remember the best moments of life! Great for anniversaries, weddings, new births and birthdays. A blend of original art and personalized sentiments.

In early America, these announcements featured primitive drawings of angels, birds, flowers, hearts, etc. The resulting Early American Folk Art art or Fraktur was often the record of a family's history. These items were hung on walls, pasted inside trunks and passed on from generation to generation.
  
You provide the details to create a wonderful keepsake, Each one is personalized with the information that you send. I'll combine that information and then hand watercolor each one individually. Size: 8 1/2 x 11” can be cropped to it into an 8” x 10” frame.

NEEDED INFORMATION: Please send the name of the bride and groom and the date of the wedding. 

Personalized, Hand water colored and unframed $49
FREE shipping. 

I accept checks or money orders.  I can also accept PayPal at this time. Email me for my address. kenscottart@att.net

Note: I offer a 100% mistake free guarantee that you'll never have to worry that your Record of Marriage or Birth will come back with spelling mistakes or omission errors. But if that occurs just let me know. If the mistake was my fault,  I'll replace your Record at no extra charge.

NEW DESIGN! RECORD OF BIRTH FRAKTUR

Personalized, Hand water colored and unframed $39

I have also added a new RECORD OF BIRTH design to my line of personal Frakturs.

This RECORD BIRTH FRAKTUR is a wonderful way to remember the best moments of life! Great for anniversaries, weddings, new births and birthdays. A blend of original art and personalized sentiments.

In early America, these announcements featured primitive drawings of angels, birds, flowers, hearts, etc. The resulting Early American Folk Art art or Fraktur was often the record of a family's history. These items were hung on walls, pasted inside trunks and passed on from generation to generation.
  
You provide the details to create a wonderful keepsake, Each one is personalized with the information that you send. I'll combine that information and then hand watercolor each one individually. Size: 8 1/2 x 11” can be cropped to it into an 8” x 10” frame.
NEEDED INFORMATION: Please send me the name of the child, sex, date of birth and the mother and father's name.  If they are a Mr. and Mrs., let me know. Otherwise just give me their names. 

Personalized, Hand water colored and unframed $39
please include $6 for shipping, handling and insurance. 

I accept checks or money orders. Sorry I don't accept PayPal or credit cards at this time. Email me for my address. kenscottart@att.net

Note: I offer a 100% mistake free guarantee that you'll never have to worry that your Record of Marriage or Birth will come back with spelling mistakes or omission errors. But if that occurs just let me know. If the mistake was my fault,  I'll replace your Record at no extra charge.

Personal Journal Title Page

This page is one of the options that I can do for you own journal title page.

These Journals with their handcrafted irregularities, antiqued edges, pale watercolors and scribbled notations, look like the remembrance books that individuals recorded their travels and adventures in decades ago.

These journals come in an assortment of sizes. The smaller size is perfect for keeping in  your haversack. Great for that trekking journal!

The middle size is great for those of you who like to sketch or watercolor while on the trail.

If you are a trader or a merchant the larger size might just fit your needs as  a ledger.

Size 4"x 6"	$49
Size 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"	$59
Size 7 " x 11 "	$69
Size 8 1/2" x 11"	$69

Please add $10.00 shipping, handling.

Tulip Fraktur

No King But Jesus Fraktur

I sent this out as my email Christmas Card this year. Got great response from customers and friends. Some printed it out, framed it and hung it on their walls. Others asked to use it as their Christmas card and others told me that they reduced the size,  printed it out and hung it as an ornament on their tree. Wonderful to create something that people enjoy.

Bird Fraktur

Carolina Parrot Queet Fraktur

Sacred to the memory of...

Fraktur Examples made during Pennsylvania German Design class

Here are some frakturs and a scraffito plate that I worked on during the recent  Pennsylvania German Design class at the Arms Making Workshop at Conner Prairie. In addition to teaching fraktur and making several examples, I actually completed the scraffito of four plates during the class. Jim Pease assisted me during the Paper Arts class where we taught Pennsylvania German Fraktur. Larry Gillam, the chief potter at Conner, taught the Redware Scraffito class. Great time! If you've never attended the Arms Making Workshop you should check into it.

   

Alphabet Fraktur

Alphabet Fraktur Print
8.5" x11"
$39