My Studio Will Be Closed Till Friday the 13th.. OMG the 13th

A Lazy Day On The Madison

A gentle cool breeze. The sound of slow moving water, over ancient rocks, birds feeding, people tubing, and fishing, as a heavy duty sprinkler sprays a planted field. That's today in south west Montana

A New Begining - Picked Up - A Visit To Planet Bronze - Photographing A Bronze

Headed to Northwest Art Casting in Bozeman to pick up the finished and mounted bronze of A NEW BEGINNING. After loading it up in my van, I head to Planet Bronze so I could introduce you to Dennis Harrington, the artist who helped me to deliver the clay of THE PROTECTOR to the foundry last week.
Once I got back to Ennis, I photographed the bronze I had just picked up. I also show you a very important tip on photographing a bronze. How to take down the shine.



Final Photographs of A NEW BEGINNING.

A Day At The Foundry - Coloring A NEW BEGINNING

Spent a day at Northwest Art Casting, in Bozeman, Montana, coloring the first bronze copy of A NEW BEGINNING. Didn't finish coloring the bronze while I was there, because we just ran out of time. The base couldn't be mounted on the bronze so it meant I'd have to travel back to the foundry tomorrow. So Issac knew what had to be done to finish the coloring and since I couldn't bring home the bronze today.. I decided to head back home. So tomorrow will be the day I pick it up.



Photographs from today at the foundry.

A Birthday Party for Joan

It turned out to be a bit of an adventure getting up to Joan Stanley's birthday party the other day. My van, in the middle of a major road, under construction, suddenly and without warning died. It was as if someone unplugged my vehicle. It just went dead in the middle of the road. I did manage to put it into neutral and coast to the edge of the road, but the flashers didn't work either.. The birthday card with the talking message had more power than my van. It was 5 pm.
Well just watch the videos first part to see what happened.

The Protector - Delivered to the Foundry

Dennis Harrington came over to Ennis, with his brother's business van, and we loaded up the clay into the back of it. Attaching it to a large piece of plywood to keep it from flopping around. The trip to Bozeman and the foundry was uneventfull and we got the clay safely to the mold room where Matt will start to process of cutting the clay apart to make rubber molds of each part.
I also looked over the bronze that I videoed being cast into bronze a week ago. A New Beggining will be colored on Monday.

The Protector - Readied For The Trip To The Foundry

Got to the studio early to get the clay ready for transportation to the foundry. Just getting out of the parking lot will be scary.. not exactly smooth here. I've braced him up as much as I can.. now it's up to the big guy upstairs if I get there in one piece or not. I've made a lot of cuts and expansions in this figure.. so all those cuts worry me.



Photographs.

This shows the pose that started this piece. Taken in 2006 on the Little Big Horn River at the Custer Battlefield.

The Protector - Flip Returned and Samsung Purchased

The Flip had draw backs.. I'll explain in the video.. The Camera I purchased is a Samsung R10
Just getting THE PROTECTOR ready to be transported to the foundry tomorrow. I'm very nervous about transporting this clay. Dennis Harrington will be helping me tomorrow transport this clay to the foundry in Bozeman. Dennis is the owner of Planet Bronze in Bozeman. He's also a very talented sculptor.