Category Archives: Artful Artifacts

Unique Holiday Greetings

Here at Maplewood Press and Archer Atwood Books, we would like to offer you a warm Happy Holidays, and wishing you the very best in 2017!!                   I don’t recall when I started painting Christmas ornaments. In the beginning they were very simple graphic designs, painted directly […]

Atwood’s Artful Artifacts: Harbors

Atwood’s Artful Assembled Artifacts #2 : Harbor Views! New England harbors are quaint and beautiful. My father loved to visit them to take photos of fishing boats that he would later make into watercolor paintings. When I was younger, I obviously tagged along. Little did I know how much those trips would influence me later! […]

Atwood’s Artful Artifacts: Duck Decoys

Atwood’s Artful Assembled Artifacts #1 : That’s Just Ducky! Handmade Decoys were historically used to attract ducks into a hunter’s firing range. They have been around forever. Some older decoys were covered with bird skin and feathers. The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. has decoys that date to 400 BC-AD 100 that were found in […]