Category: My Art
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Casting the Bird is Back
A few days and many hours later, casting the bird is back on track. At least I think it is. My new plaster mold is cured, sealed, and I have put it to use. I cast Fat Baby Bird #16 very hastily late in the evening, and it was not well done. I did prove…
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Update on Casting the Bird
This update on casting the bird is about relearning lessons learned! I am not methodical, I don’t track, write down, or review all the steps, tips, and lessons learned from my endeavors in art or life. And of course that can create trouble! Before I made a new mother mold for my Fat Baby Bird,…
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Casting the Bird
I sold the last finished, and favorite, Fat Baby Bird cement cast during Studio Tour this year. Two more Tour visitors expressed an interest, so I cast two more recently. Numbers 12 & 13 of the planned limited edition of 25 are sold. I sold Number 12 was sold to a Tour visitor after my…
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The Flute Player and the Field Worker
Some figures emerge, slumber, then reappear in my work. When they reappear they are generally quite different: in a radically different context, in different material, or with very different mood. Most of my imagery emerges from my subconscious, but I have used well known symbols from various cultures in the past. Long ago I drew…
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Fire and Ice
Many of the people that I know are stressed and full of angst, but not from things we experience directly. Rather it is because we hear about so many terrible happenings around the world, and ever closer to home. Here on the west coast of the US we are experiencing a several year drought. And…
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Are These Subtle Changes?
I needed to correct something about a “finished” artwork. It was really bothering me, although I wasn’t sure why. I just did not quite like it, however much I wanted to. The individual elements seemed mostly OK, but… it wasn’t working for me. So I made some changes; are these subtle changes? Or not so…
