Santa Fe Basket Weavers wins an award

I entered the above in the student show. It won an Award of Merit by the college Arts Council: $100 and a certificate. Pretty cool. I only entered the one thing because of the disaster with last semester's pour [virtually all of the 20 some projects failed...it was a bad day for everyone.] So I entered this just to have something in the show and I did not expect to win anything. There were 280 entries and about 20 awards. So, this is amazing. To have a jury of arts profs, community members and professionals think my work was good enough to get an award two years in a row is powerful encouragement. I also listed this piece for sale. No bites yet but the show just opened two days ago.

War dance

Alabaster and bronze, brown and red patina.
Each of these guys was sculpted and cast individually. Each was then mounted on the alabaster stone. There was a danger that these guys would not cast well because some of the parts were really thin. For example on the first figure, the staff he is holding is very thin and it is amazing the tip cast. The feathers were also very thin. However, everything came out well.

Note this is a new post of this sculpture. The prior post has been deleted. I added red patina to reflect the details on the figures that did not show well previously. You can now see the detail on the clothing.

This sculpture was completed June 2007.

Lines and angles

Alabaster and bronze. 14 inches high.
The photo does not show the angle cuts in the stone very well. Too bad because that is what this sculpture is all about. The angles in the bronze are meant to pick up on the angles in the stone. The bronze also has tiny lines cut into the bronze. So there are lots of angles and lots of lines in this sculpture. The bronze patina matches perfectly with the brown in the white stone.

This is the second post of this sculpture. I have deleted the prior post because I changed the sculpture by reducing the spikes a few inches. I like the sculpture a lot more now. I think it is better balanced.

This sculpture was completed in June 2007.

Daniel's Dali

Bronze with marble base.
This is a sculpture done at my son's request. He just returned from Spain, the home of Salvador Dali. Daniel toured Dali's home town and the Dali museum. The painting "Persistence of Memory" has been called Dali's most famous painting and the tree with a melting clock is included in the painting. Dali also did sculptures of the melting clock and in England there is a sculpture of Dali with a melting clock. Ebay is selling Dali's original melting clock sculpture for $10,000. Reproductions can be found on the internet for about $2000.

Become a mentor

Alabaster stone base, Bronze figure. 8 inches high by six by eight.
This is the little girl image that I have shown in various stages in this blog. You have now seen this piece from start to finish. The image is from a photo in an ad in New Mexico Magazine that is requesting mentors for American Indian children in New Mexico. The ad says "Become a mentor." The organization is Futures for Children located in Albuquerque New Mexico.

Shawl of many colors

Bronze and alabaster stone. This sculpture did not photograph well. The photo depicts this sculpture as sort of short and squat...but she is really tall and thin. She sits at about 16 inches high. I call this sculpture the "Shawl of many colors" because I used black, white, green, blue and orange patina on the shawl. Some of the colors are visible in the photo. You can see black, green, and orange but you can't see the other colors too well in the photo. It is much prettier in real life.

I'm posting the photos of the sculptures as I finish them. I am in the process of cleaning up a few others before I start my summer projects. I am quickly running out of room at my house for the sculptures.

Moli 2

This is the second version of Moli I did for my friend Kathy. [See prior post] However, because Kathy likes the original Moli I did for her and has taken her home, this is now my Moli. She is sitting next to the Edison sculpture and keeping him company. This sculpture was derived from an actual photo of a Pomeranian. She is about two inches tall. Depending upon whether my son likes this sculpture or not, I may put her up for adoption.