by admin | Mar 20, 2015 | Artist weekly Log
This week has been full of Art Exhibitions! On Monday I delivered my sculpture “Sanctuary” in Bonded Bronze to the Idaho Falls Arts Council for this years National Exhibition. This show is always fantastic and if you are in the area I highly recommend going to see it. Thursday was opening night and when I walked in to the gallery to find my piece I was delighted to see a little sticker on the tag that said sold! Within the first half hour of the show opening my piece had already sold. Here is a picture of me next to my piece.
It was also a special evening because one of my current students A’menae Hillam was in the show. It makes me proud to see my students who I have been teaching for the last four years do such amazing work and be in art shows with me. Here I am with A’menae next to her awesome and really big painting.
In addition to this art show I have also been in charge of the Shelley High School Art Show. It was a lot of work setting up and making sure it all was displayed nicely. My students did some fantastic work this year. To top off my week I just got this letter from The Church History Museum Telling me I made it into the second round of the International LDS Art Competition.
Overall A pretty exciting week.
I hope your weeks was equally exciting.
by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Artist weekly Log
It’s hard to beat a week like last week as far as excitement and how much work I was able to get done. Although much of this week has been recuperating after wearing my body out, it has also been one that I have tried to keep the momentum going.
The end of my Artist Residency was filled sculpting one more sculpture entitled Blessings. I like this title because it can be interpreted in different ways depending on the person or the time of your life. These hands could be either the giver of blessings or the receiver.
On Saturday I gave a public demonstration about the Anatomy of facial expression. It went really well. We first went over basic proportions of the head. then we talked about how muscles work and how skin reacts to muscle contraction. After that we talked specifically about the muscles off expression and which ones are being activated in different facial expressions. Here are some pictures taken from Kara Hidalgo at the Idaho Art Lab during the presentation.
The rest of the week I have been getting back into the swing of teaching while getting ready for a High School art Show I am putting on next week and getting ready to film an instructional sculpture video. I have many of these videos planned. This one will give artists a foundation of sculpting skills and proportions of the head. It will walk you through the steps of making a portrait sculpture from start to finish. It will be very thorough and in my opinion will be filling a need for high quality and information packed sculpture videos. As Daniel Hidalgo said about my public demonstrations recently, “It is like information you would receive in a whole entire college course packed into a few hours.” I will be making my sculpture videos just as informative and well taught.
The videos I plan on making in the near future are:
Sculpting the Human Head Foundational Course
Sculpting an upper body Écorché
Sculpting Facial Expressions
Sculpting Ethnic Differences
Sculpting a likeness of your model
Sculpting Age & Gender
Sculpting Fabric
Sculpting Hands and Feet
Relief Sculpting
There are others that I am planning that have more to do with the whole figure but I’m not exactly sure how I am going to break them up yet. What are some instructional sculpture videos you might like to see?
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Artist weekly Log, Contest, Progress Pictures
Busy here as an artist. Between trying to finish my Good Samaritan sculpture and entered into a contest, apply for some summer art festivals who’s deadlines are coming up really soon, getting ready for next weeks artist residency, holding a sculpture giveaway, all while working a full time job as an art teacher, I have had plenty to keep me busy.
Here is a picture of me with my brand new J-Mac clay I got from American Fine Arts Supplies. 150 pounds of clay for my artist residency. I gotta tell you AFA supplies has been so awesome to work with. When I told them what I was ordering the clay for, they decided to send the clay with a little surprise for everyone who visits me next week at the art lab. So if you live in Eastern Idaho here is what you do. You go to this link: www.afasupplies.com, look through all the awesome sculpting supplies they have, pick stuff out you wish you had, and then come visit me at the art lab to get your surprise. I will be at the art lab starting Saturday the 28th during the Big Art Expo and I will stay until Saturday March 7th. On that day I will be doing a public presentation on sculpting Facial Expression from 10:00-2:00.
Working as an Art teacher isn’t all work. I do get to do some awesome artwork while I teacher. Here is a kiln full of pottery I unloaded this week. Most of the work is my students work but the 2 bowls you see are mine. It’s always exciting to pop open that kiln lid and see what treasures 2000 degrees has turned you work into.
I was also in the news reciently in an article about the Idaho Art Labs Big Art Expo. Feel free to read that article HERE. This is a picture of me sculpting my good Samaritan Sculpture and was featured in the article.
Tomorrow is the deadline for the International LDS Art Competition. I will be entering this sculpture into the show. But first I need to finish making the mold and cast it in bonded sand. I will also be making this sculpture available to purchase on my website.
Here is a picture of my sculpture under the first layer of silicone. It is a very nervous process. no matter how many molds I make I am always afraid that for some reason it might not work.
Among all of this fun I have also been runing a sculpture giveaway. You have until Tuesday March 2nd to enter. If you haven’t entered already please do. You can enter at this link: http://woobox.com/huu97t
If you have already entered remember that you can share the contest and get 2 more entries every time a friend enters. To share simply go to the link above and use the share buttons at the bottom of the contest. You can share on facebook, Twitter, or email. Shares usually work a little better if you make sure to include a personal note with the link. If all you do is post the link people will look on past. But if you include a personal message like “Hey guess what? my favorite artist in the whole world is giving away one of his sculptures. You should enter” you will probably get a much better response.
Lastly, I just want to say thank you for your support. I have been getting so many comments and messages lately. I really do appreciate it. I will be actively posting updates of my progress all next week during my artist residency. I hope you will follow along and comment on my posts. I will probably also be asking for help naming sculpture and doing other things of that sort.
