Is that a sawblade painting?

I have a lot of wonderful crosscut, handsaws, and bucksaws as well as some really nice rounds in lots of sizes. Unfortunately saw blades don`t last very long. I can only do one at a time and they are very labor intensive. I try to do as many as I can between my other paintings.

There are as many different saws as there are Ideas. I have never painted a new blade. Part of the magic is hunting for them. We find them in antique stores, flee markets, and tucked away in barns and shops.

Roy and I love to take off in our little pickup with a bag thrown in the back and let the road take us. We usually find something to add to my enormous pile of blades. I have people who collect them for me. I have carpenters who throw them in a pile and bring them or call.

A lot of the blades have a story. Someone will bring me one and tell me a story of their great grandpa using the blade to clear their homestead. Sometimes I can recreate the memory for someone on the blade.