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KeBlogJournal for August 2006
August 12, 2006
It has been one hell of a roller coaster
month since last update, but between a 900 mile journey to see Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young, a blooming love-something, a garden overgrowing with
ragweed and goat-heads, I managed to get this far with a new painting,
called "Belly Dance Circus".
August 15, 2006
It is Tuesday therefore Belly Dance Night
at the Mine Shaft, which means in the next couple of days I will get photos
of the exhibit of Belly Dance Circus at the circus. But until then here is a
work in progress... Cowboy and Belly Dancer Ride Into The Sunset.
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INTO THE SUNSET
work in progress |
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August 16, 2006
I didn't get the photos I was planning,
but here--just a short group and the finish of Belly Dance Circus.
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Belly Dance Circus
Completed work, 4X6 feet acrylic on plywood, $5000. |
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August 17, 2006
I am in a quandary, which is always a
good oblivious thing to say, because first of all, what is a quandary? For
me, it is forcing myself to be what I have always been, an artist. That is
the quandary. Why force myself to be what I already am? The truth is these
days I enjoy laying in bed with my sweet dream, or lay out in the yard
pulling weeds, or just putter at house control as much as I enjoy trying to
pull three- dimensional magic out of a two-dimensional nothing. The little
painting moves very slowly. Here it is.
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Into the Sunset
work in progress 10X10 inches |
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August 19, 2006
It is raining and has been almost every
day for last two months, so New Mexico's draught is over...in the meantime I
have sold one of my large "animal" sculptures and commissioned to do
another. Below is the the "Gazelle" sold to a lovely woman from San
Francisco, and the stack of wood in the truck is the beginnings of a "baby
gazelle" commissioned also by another woman from San Francisco. In the next
ten days it will become another stick animal, then to put it on a wagon and
head out west...
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The Path to River
flooded |
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The Galesteo River
flooding |
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The Gazelle
soon in San Francisco |
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The Baby Gazelle
just a pile of sticks |
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August 24, 2006
I have begun the process of building a
new sculpture, or as one person said several years ago..."You call that
sculpture? Looks more like well organized firewood."
As always, beauty (or art) lies in the
eye of the beholder.
The actual assembly of my sculpture is a
long process that involves the random organics of natural tree branches into
a three-D line drawing. It also requires the imagination of the spectator to
give that "organized firewood" the breath of life.
The following photos are the first phase
of finding the power of line which becomes a creature such as a
gazelle, horse or elk.
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STUDIO 3115
Gate to my home and studio |
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THE GAZELLE
Gazelle going to California |
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THE HORSE
staying home |
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THE ELK
staying home |
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THE TRUCK
beginning of process |
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THE WOOD LINE
selection process |
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THE BEGINNING
trimming lines |
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TRIMMING
line correction |
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SCULPTURE SHED
where it takes place |
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TOOLS
operating bench |
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LINE COLLECTING
how it begins |
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LINES ADDED
slow gathering of lines |
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MORE LINES
and on |
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MORE LINES AGAIN
sometimes they stay sometimes not |
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LINE CREATION
at this point it looks more like a crustacean than an animal. The human fetus has many creature like phases... |
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August 26, 2006
As the baby is today...
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BABY GAZELLE
this is the form and now to refine |
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August 27,06
Today was the meeting of baby and Momma
August 29,06
Today was taking apart baby and buzzing
him a new skin.
August 31,06
Today the baby is near completion, just
"curling" the heavy gauge wire that binds it together and the next point
will be coloration finish to bring it closer to "Momma's" look.
