Author: craigburkhalter

I was able to go on another pre-dawn hike up Picken’s Nose with a group of Hambidge residents. It is the best money shot for the effort of any of the trails I know around here. Out of the seven of us that went today four went for the first time. Newbies are always awed…

Did you know you can get a man to do anything you want if you add…. then we meet girls? We aren’t very hard to figure out and I often wonder why women haven’t risen up and chopped our heads off. From personal relationships to world level decisions we’ve done SUCH a good job. Here…

I don’t really know how far back you can go and still say new work. These drawings are from a series I did in early 2026. I haven’t shown them anywhere publicly and very few times to visitors in studio. They are really different from my normal drawings. I generally like them with the combination…

I am well aware that my references on occasion are obscure, sometimes done on purpose and sometimes I just don’t care. My guerrilla work is produced on “fancy pants” paper. I’m a paper slut and like exotic and handmade papers. They’re expensive and when I tear large sheets down to usable size there is often…

David Sutton is a friend of mine who works with faux finishes, restorations and decorative painting along with his fine art. We have worked together on several projects including the restoration of two churches and the old governor’s mansion. Recently he came up to the mountains and painted my generator case to look like wood…

We have a trail called the Bear Tree Trail because at the trail head there is a tree with bear scratches that get higher each year. Same bear? We don’t know. We’ve only run into bears a few times on this trail but my cameras have photographed quite a few. It is a good flat…

Recently I was hiking with friends around a mountain bog when a dragonfly decided it loved Keith. It landed on him and stayed. It allowed us to inspect it closely and when Keith gently put it down it flew right back to him and landed on his shoulder. We left him there for the remainder…

LXXXVI XLVII – Letterpress

There must be billions of ferns where I live, acres of New York and Hay Scented ferns along with Maiden Hair, Cinnamon, Painted, Christmas and so many others my head spins when I listen to the botanists up here. I have gone through periods when I’ve used ferns in imagery. Sometimes the prints deal with…

Years ago I participated in a print exchange with the theme Currents. The image I produced dealt with air currents and a phrase I used was More Subtle Than Water. When I produced it I liked it but in retrospect… not so much but the phrase stayed with me. I recently resurrected the phrase with…