The Big Picture!

For the first time in 10 years - The Gronseth Family together, at least in one photo. Well, minus my nephew Shane Gronseth who is now in the Army. And we were together in 2006 for my neice Shannon's wedding to Dave Splonskowski, but weren't able to get everyone together for a photo. Sadly, we are missing Lee, David's wife, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2005 and Dad, who passed in 2007. This would have been a celebration of Mom & Dad's 50th wedding anniversary, and since our calendars had already been cleared, we decided it was about time to have the whole family back together anyhow.

I agree with Gail that it shouldn't be another 10 before we do this again.

OK, from the top: Julia, Shannon (Gronseth) & Dave Splonskowski, Gail & Matt Borst, Sue Parson* and David Gronseth, Mom, Karen & Dan Gronseth, Sue & Dave Feenstra, Jon & Eva VanderWoude

And the kids: Kelly & Abbey Feenstra, Erik Gronseth, Jennifer Feenstra, Shawn & Shay Gronseth, Jakob Gronseth, Justin & Amanda VanderWoude, and Anna Borst.

*Sue Parson is not technically part of the family; she and David met through E-Harmony and he wanted to introduce her to the family. We were glad to have met her. She's a super nice lady. She lost her husband to lung cancer a couple years ago.

Also Rans - Drawings that Didn't Get in the Show

For one reason or another, there were many drawings I have done in the past four years that didn't make it in the show. Some newer stuff isn't framed, and some I didn't think 'fit' the show. I was going for 'Arizona' stuff for the gallery, but when there seemed to be more room than I first thought, I took some old pencil drawings that I thought showcased my older work (and ones that I still have in my house!). Here are most of my other works, from newer to older - roughly. I won't bother trying to name them or otherwise label them as the other ones took forever and still didn't come out right on some people's monitors.

Hope you enjoy. This is what I've been up to the past four years...

Of course, many are for sale if the price is right!

Just ask azgronseth@msn.com

My Show Pieces

OK, there's probably a way to make this into a slide show, but I don't have the foggiest...You'll have to suffer scrolling down to see everything. Add the crappy monitor and I don't really know if anything I'm posting is even decent. So, because I believe a few pictures to be blurry, I will show the gallery shot - framed and then the scan - unframed.

Ready?

Scroll!

The Glory of Fall - 16" x 20" Framed

Pen & Ink [stipple]

$4500

In HIS Hands 11"x14" Framed Colored Pencil $1250

Christmas House Ruins 11"x14" Framed Pen & Ink plus Colored Pencil $ 1350

Phoenix Zoo Koi 11"x14" Framed Colored Pencil $500

Tribute to the Night 11"x14" Framed

Pen & Ink [stipple]

$1350

Hunger Pains 11"x14" Framed Pen & Ink [stipple]

$400

Collared Lizard - Mate Wait 8"x10" Framed

Pen & Ink [stipple]

$200

Reach for the Sky 14"x11"

Pen & Ink [stipple]

$450

Little Begger 8"x10" Framed

Pen & Ink [stipple]

$350

Havasupai Falls 14"x11" Framed Pen & Ink [stipple] Not For Sale

Santa Rita Prickly Pear Flower 11"x14" Framed Colored Pencil on Black Paper $350

The last Ebony Pencil drawing I did was in 1996 or 97 for Erik. This is the Durango - Silverton Narrow Guage in CO.

This is crazy King Ludwig's Bavarian castle. Interesting story behind this and his other castles. Anyhow he was committed as insane but not before he spent most of the family's accumulated wealth. I don't know how that got underlined, and I don't know how to undo it without retyping everything. It was done with Ebony pencil and white Prismacolor pencil on blue paper.

This is a harbor scene I really liked. Well, Karen really liked it, too. The first one I did of this one I gave to Phoenix Christian Gradeschool for an auction. This is the second one of the same scene. It was (they were) done with Ebony pencil and white Prismacolor on grey paper.