It began in January – I decided the time had come to sculpt. In the late 1970’s I did a lost wax Jaguar casting, a wooden wallet, and a feelie but that ended my three dimensional art until now. As usual, I wanted to go big. Life size. I wanted to do figures. Being flexible,...
Oil clay proved to be a good medium to sculpt, but it is soft and therefore fragile. I bet it gets pretty dusty too. Oven bake clay added another dimension in that it can be permanently hardened and then carved. Water based firing clay was up next for testing. I’d not ever used it so...
In my minds eye, I saw these fat little birds landing on a line held by two girls. I knew I had a fun idea to create from. I called them Potato Birds because of their shape and imagined all sorts of situations they might put themselves in. I created names for them male and...
If art is a conversation, then style is the personality. When I think of style, I only consider authentic style. N. C. Wyeth and J.C. Leyendecker come to mind. Their illustrations had distinctive touches that really work. For a brief time I followed an old fashioned commercial art curriculum at a community college before digital...
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