I recently thought to create another sculpture in my amethyst and bronze series of work. This sculpture portrays two small birds sitting on a twig.I have chosen to set the work on residue amethyst I cut from the geode used for my Encased sculpture with the bronze stallion. This cut amethyst has a crystal depression […]
I am about to create another amethyst sculpture. This time it is with amethyst flowers.A few days ago I finished my Encased Stallion sculpture. When creating this work I had thought to place the bronze stallion in front of the amethyst geode and have bronze cast flowers inside the geode, but this didn’t work. The […]
I had originally thought to call this piece “Chuck’s Amethyst Mine”. But I changed my mind.This sculpture is named for Chuck McBride, a fellow in California who seeks out and explores old gold mines from the California gold rush days (1848-1855). We first corresponded when I was seeking reference material on old mining carts for […]
Some time ago I cut an amethyst geode for another miner sculpture.A helpful person at the Calgary Rock and Lapidary club where I cut the stone suggested that the residue piece from the cut would make a perfect den for an animal. Accordingly, as I had just finished my Three Bears sculpture, it was an […]
I am making another another western stallion piece in my amethyst and bronze sculpture series.Some time ago I was fortunate to acquire a new amethyst geode from Sidi Rahal that is spectacularly intricate. It is fragile. I cut off the bottom so as to make a base for mounting the stone. I then set three […]
A week ago I purchased a walnut slab, 2 inches thick, 13 inches wide, and 4 feet long.Four prime pieces of walnut were cut from this slab and shaped to be used as bases for forthcoming sculptures. At the moment I am in a creative mood and looking forward to finishing a number of new […]
I have begun to cast another of my PKKing resin kit models, Nu Wa. This casting is as significant as my previous Baphomet sculpture and Yan Wu sculpture, both also created by PKKing. These also go with my Sturgeon King resin model that I created in 2011when I purchased all my other PKKing kits.Nu Wa […]
I recently finished a new sculpture, known as The Three Bears. This is another sculpture in my series of work where I tend to portray my bronze castings in settings with amethyst geodes.The bears were given a black patina and set on walnut. Coincident with this, I cut one of my amethyst geodes the other […]
It has been a long time since I have provided a casting update. The last exhibition I did was Art Market in 2022. At that time I realized that the world had changed. People are worried about inflation and the increased cost of living. Until such time as prices and wages settle this is not […]
The Alberta Craft Council has a Call for Entry open at the moment, closing on February 6, 2023, celebrating the adorned, decorated, patterned and ornamented excess.Ornament and Crime is an essay written in 1908 by Adolf Loos, an Austrian architect active in the early 1900’s in Vienna. According to the text in the Call for […]
