Where's the Angling Art Section?

You may have noticed, and...maybe not, but about a month ago I replaced the Angling Art section of the scotthalefineart.com website with a Mixed Media section, where I display my oil painting "corks" (see September 3rd Post). For the past month I have been working feverishly on a new website project related to the disappearance of the Angling Art. It's something I've been thinking about and musing over since sometime last summer. I was going to work on it in this past spring but like it always does, the summer show season takes precedence. The new project moved to the "wait until fall" category of the things to do list. So I set my sights on September, and, for the past 4 weeks, have been doing nothing but getting the new site online: ArtCreel.com.

ArtCreel.com - "Fine Art for Anglers" is the new home of my angling art / fish paintings. It is also the place to find excellent work from some of the most well-known cotemporary artists creating fly fishing art in the country. This includes veterans Al Barnes, Peter Corbin, and Joe Tomelleri along with some of the newer all-stars like AD Maddox and Derek DeYoung. I surfed across a guy in Wisconsin named John Koch and decided I had to have his incredible woodcut prints on ArtCreel as well. While there will be some more artists added to ArtCreel in the coming months, I'm trying to keep the focus on originality, variety, and fresh outlooks on the genre. The site went online this week - have a look!:


If you're wondering why I took on this project - I guess I wanted to create a place on the web that really focused on the niche genre of angling art. You may be interested in this kind of thing, or not, but if you have any fly fisherpeople in your life, let them know about ArtCreel.com - they will want to oogle! And if you draw their names in the family or office gift exchange for Christmas, you now have no worries about where to find the perfect gift.

Lara, my wife, will be helping me run the ArtCreel side of things now that the design and implementation of the site is done and we're live. That will allow me to get back to painting; so while I don't have any new painting adventures to report on this month, I will in November.