Skies this morning are overcast and heavy with rain. It’s been unseasonably cool, following a very warm spell the end of August. While I was down at the grizzly bear discovery Center in West Yellowstone on Monday, I found myself hiding under the umbrella and zipping up my raincoat on more than one occasion as [...]
Sometimes as an artist you get to picking at details far more than you really should… when instead, you should be looking at the bigger picture. And oftentimes it takes an outside force (such as your wife saying, “what were you thinking here?”, the dogs knocking a sculpture onto the floor) to help push you [...]
I had a great weekend visit with some friends in Alta, Utah. The drive down was very pleasant despite lasting eight hours. Due to road construction in Yellowstone, I had to go a different route through the Tetons and Logan, Utah areas. Treats along the way included grizzly bear crossing right in front of the [...]
Monday’s become my officially unofficial day of unstructured time in the Park. I’m not sure how often you have one of these days but it seems that mine started out early in the morning, and headed in the wrong direction. By the time the world began waking up around me I was looking for reasons [...]
In this post, it will follow up with some more observations I made of this sculpture “Marcus Daly” by Autustus Saint-Gaudens. Here I’ve laid out some examples of how lines in the position of masses can affect the movement of the viewers eye - these represent two of the tools artists use to guide a viewer’s experience work of [...]
I thought it would be of interest for folks to see how artwork is viewed from an artists perspective (mine in this case), of “Marcus Daly” by Augustus Saint-Gaudens on the campus of Montana Tech in Butte Montana. For more information on St. Gaudens - an American Master of sculpture - his work and life, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Saint-Gaudens. I [...]
After dropping the boy off at daycare I took the dogs for a short run in the Arch Park. From there we packed up and headed to Bozeman and the foundry. I had a few miniature sculptures that needed to be patinaed as well as needing to get some new sculptures quoted for molding and [...]
We took the day to drive over the Beartooths. George dropped a couple of wolf sculptures off at the Beartooth Gallery, and we took the chance to do some sightseeing an hiking in the high country. There had been some pretty extreme storms the night before, so the clouds were slow to rise and hovered [...]
A quick sketch of myself and a fun picture of the boy
Thought I’d post these two sketches from our day on Saturday… one is of a scene from along the Madison River and one from while Jenny was driving and I scribbled this view of the Absaroka Mountains in Paradise Valley, MT on the way up to visit with friends at Chico Hot Springs.
