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Thursday I worked on my series of small bronze castings "gust".
I use an angle grinder with a metal cutting blade and cut off the stubs of the gates flush to the surface of the hat.
Here you can see the stubs of the gates.
More gate stubs.
After cutting of the gates.
Cutting off the gates leaves a shinny smooth surface. I then use various air tools to recreate the felt texture. This process is called chasing.
The texture is repaired.
wet on wet
I have a problem of using too much ink, that said here is the results of today's experiments.
Before I left for Greece I shipped a "happy dog" sculpture on a bronze bed to a gentleman who saw my work at the Conroe Art League show this spring. I finished his piece the day before we left. I had not heard from him and was worried maybe he was not happy. I am a worrier. Yesterday I emailed him to make sure all was good and also to remind him that if he ever tires of the sculpture I have a buy back policy. I will buy back any of my work for the price I originally sold the work for. It has to be in good condition, not damaged. I do this to keep I my work out of the secondary market - estate sales, auctions......etc.
Here is a cropped screen shot of his response.
Wow! It pays to follow up. I could not be more pleased and gratified that my little sculpture means so much to his family. I hope I can come up with a moose that he is equally pleased with.
I am taking a brush and ink washes workshop with Suzzane Manns. My purpose is to maybe pick up a new and technique of mark making.
Today was painful. She set up a still life and wanted us to render it in ink washes.
I am more of a gesture type. But here goes-
the still life-
The still life
the above photo in black and white.
I ran out of time but- this is as still as I can make myself get.
I decided to ignore all all the noise in the background. It was people drawing from the other side.
My piece "that ball is not going to throw it's self" was selected along with my "fetch I-VI" lenticular.
I will be replacing the pedestal on the "tat ball is not going to throw it's self" piece with a chair. I am going to paint the chair with drippy, thick, flat white paint. It will look like plaster. I will then attach the wire dog to the back of the chair.
I bought this chair on Montrose at a 1/2 price sale.
The painting will start next week and probably go on all summer.
Known and Underknownexhibition to be installed in the lobby of 1600 Smith on September 8- November 13, 2017.
new photos of my sculpture "January 21, 2017" taken by will michels
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new photos of my work by will michels. See his beautiful work at -
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new photos taken by will michels
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I actually think the imperfect pieces are the most beautiful-also true in life.
fingers crossed
I flipped the photo upside down and the coins made a halo over the reflection of the the choir boys.
the tourist
curtis patiently waiting as I take more and more pictures.
These pieces were lost in a shipwreck. The corrosion from the salt water is so rich.
Back
the front
He was missing his head
I am on a group trip in Athens led by Patrick Palmer and Dr. Anna Tahinci. We are in Athens to see documenta 14. Yesterday curtis and I walked all the sites we could. Tomorrow we start with Docunenta.
Athens makes me miss stone carving.
Parthenon
Parthenon
Parthenon
Athens makes me miss stone carving.
checking out the sites.
My HAPPY DOG - on bed
4" X 8" X 11" bronze and concrete 2015 was on exhibit in the Conroe art League national artist call exhibit. Shortly after the show I was contacted by a family in Dallas who saw the show and were interested in having one of the castings. This bed is in bronze. They have been lovely to work with and I am honored that my work will be in their collection. He ships out Thursday.
Bronze happy dog on bronze bed.
I took several photos walking by my sculpture. Who do you think won? The shadow or the wire?
Can be seen @ Mfah glassell studio school exhibition - temporary location:
2450 Holcombe Boulevard
Houston TEXAS 77021
United States
2nd floor
55"X 30" X 29"
I have been hanging my wire sculptures/shadow drawings from the ceiling. This is fine if I am installing them somewhere that has a cieling with mechanicals that I can hang from. In most facilities they will not have exposed mechanicals so I am designing a clear plexi glass wall mount fixture to hang my pieces from. I will hang the fixture from a typical picture hook.
Design of fixture
The past few weeks I have been in a poetry in practice workshop. The focus is making poetic works of art, using poetry in art, using words in art work....... and using art in poetry. Poetic expressions happen when you leave space - for the poetic expression. The group was led by Laura A. Wellen an art critic, curator and art historian. We spent one day in the MFAH library looking at poetic art books selected by the head of the library. At the end of the class we collaborated and made a book for each person in the group and the museum requested a copy for their library. I made 12 original mono-prints from my "happy dog" series and wrote a poem. The poem is to be panted (not read) in the voice of a happy, calm relaxed dog. Each edition of our book will get one of the original prints and a copy of the poem. The title of our book is "space between". The 12 artworks and poem I contributed are below.
"space between"
El Trene de muerte
I took this photo at a wood working shop outside of San Miguel where they create beautiful wood tables. Surrounded by beautiful planks of unfinished wood lay this forgotten antique paper mache figure. As he lay in an almost fetal position on the train like shaped table with his crudely amputated limbs he bravely tells the story of el Trene de muerte, or the monster. I could not bring him back with me so this photo will have to do.
El Grito (my grand dog) guards prisoners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton (at least I was told it was Hillary) on a mural of the death train. We saw this on our way to the lake-
This conjures up so many sculptural visuals.
Panorama view of mural
I found this video on youtube. I think it was pre- adding the addition of the prisoners.
