Www.madebywill.com does it again. Will Michels took this beautiful photo of my bronze sculpture.
Photo by Will Michels
Patina - faux bois
A great patina on concrete comes with exposure and time. With 5 years the patina on this small table is coming along nicely.
Detail from a small table I made in 2012
Finding the roots of my artistic voice in the Guadalupe Mountains.
Rushing into my garage on Wednesday I saw this broken branch laying on top of the trash can. My husband had picked it up earlier that morning on our patio and was disposing of it. Feeling like I was 6 years old and he had thrown away my favorite doll I grabbed that broken branch, and set it aside where it would be safe and jumped into my car to go to my studio.
I thought about that 36" long broken branch and the feelings it aroused in me when it caught my eye as it sat - goosebumps, heart skipping a beat, and protective. These were weird reactions to a broken branch. Thursday still perplexed by why I was so moved by it, I finally sat it on the pedestal in my garage work space and stepped away.
It was so obvious - it is not a broken limb, it is an abstraction of the Guadalupe Mountains. This broken and discarded limb to my eye oddly reflects the lines and shapes of the vast landscape I absorbed in my youth. The landscape that 50+ years later still influences my artistic palate. The landscape whose lines are so see deeply rooted in my subconscious that I am drawn to even when I do not recognize them.
The Guadalupe Mountains - view from the side of our old house in Dell City, Texas
This is the view from my bedroom window until I as 7 years.
in color - I took this December 2016. I had not been back since I was about 10 years old. Honestly I did not even remember these majestic mountains. .
"My Guadalupes" My next bronze.
happy dog VI mono print
Detail
New series of mono prints- work in progress
I am experimenting - these are after the first layer. They are in order as I worked on them. There will be many more layers to come. You are supposed to start with the light colors first. I decided to see what happens when I break that rule so I started with black.
Mark making with the roller
This I am working on as I clean up my inks.
Kinder Morgan Gallery - "murmur of the water"
Photo by Vanessa Nasta
MURMUR OF THE WATER
79" X 50" paint, ink, and pastels on stonehenge 2015
murmur of water
On view in the window exhibitions n space at the kinder Morgan gallery
"gust"
30 lbs. of bronze to pour 1 hat.
Still working on the series- we poured another one today, (of the three I sprued up last fall). There were a few voids. I am hopeful they will make it interesting.
It looks good from this side. :)
"gust"
Thursday I will grind off the sprue nubs with my angle grinder. Then texture the spots where the sprues and vents were. Then patina it when all of them are finished.
"gust"
Part of the series.
Last fall before spruing, dipping, burning out, casting in bronze, breaking off the shell, cutting off the cup and the sprues.
2 hats and a bird
Ready to dip this spring
tweaking - spruing
Yard cuttings, wood shavings and wax= my next bronze casting.
I am still tweaking the wax sculpture before spruing it up.
Another fowl-
Wood shavings make awesome feathers.
Sprued and ready to dip
Another view.
"forgotten soul"
Will Michels http://madebywill.com/
just sent me this photo he took of my sculpture.
This piece was sculpted out of wax and organic material to create texture and emotion of a lost and forgotten immigrant. I then made a mold of the wax sculpture and cast it in bronze. The mold is destroyed to get the bronze out - resulting in a one of kind bronze.
forgotten soul - S. Erickson
12.5" w x 9"d x 10.5" T
bronze
photo booth will Michels
S. Erickson was one of the thousands who died at the Oregon state mental hospital whose ashes were abandoned inside 3500 copper urns. I saw his picture in the newspaper and could not forget him. "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed at Oregon state mental hospital. His file stated he was a laborer and suffered from senility, he came to New York in 1883 from Norway. Mr. Erickson was one of the forgotten souls but I could not forget him.
Texas National 2017
"the last straw" Accepted
April 8, - June 10th
About the juror: Benito Huerta
Huerta has a B.F.A. from the University of Houston, an M.A. from New Mexico State University. He was co-founder, Executive Director and Emeritus Board Director of Art Lies, a Texas Art Journal. He is a Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington where he has been Director/Curator of The Gallery at UTA since 1997.
Huerta’s work is currently featured in a one-person exhibition, “Written in the Wind” at Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, LSU, Baton Rouge from March 18 – April 13, 2014 and upcoming exhibitions at Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, and at the Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas. His work was also the focus of a 20 year survey exhibition entitled, Intermission, at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago in 2011. Other recent one person exhibitions, September Song, 2013, at William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth; Meaning of Sight, 2010, at the Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa, and a 13 year survey exhibition, Soundings: Benito Huerta 1992 – 2005, 2005-2007, at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and the El Paso Museum of Art.
He was the recipient of Dallas Center for Contemporary Art’s 2002 Legend of the Year Award and Exhibition and is the recipient of first Maestros Tejanos exhibition, 2008, at the Latino Cultural Center, Dallas. His work is in several museum and corporate collections throughout the United States.
He is currently working on Urban Village: South Main Street public art project and completed work on the Marine Creek Park Corridor Master Plan / Conceptual Design in Fort Worth, Texas. Recent public art projects include SnakePath (Mexican Milk Snake), Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas (2007); Wings, DFW International Terminal D Skylink Terrazzo Floor designs (2005), Axis, Henry Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio (2003), and two Medical Center Light Rail Stations for Houston Metro, in collaboration with PDG Architects (2004).
As a curator he has organized traveling surveys/retrospectives of Luis Jimenez, Mel Chin, and Celia Alvarez Munoz. Recently he organized Flow: Dalton Maroney 1982-2011, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas; San Anto: Pride of the Southside / En El Mero Hueso – Alex Rubio and Vincent Valdez, Museo Alameda, San Antonio, Texas. He is organizing a retrospective of the work of John Hernandez for 2016 at The Gallery at UTA.
The Gallery at UTA was the recipient of the College Art Association’s Exhibition and Catalogue Grant (2007- 2008) for Points of Convergence: Masters of Fine Arts.
Photo by Will Michels
Lemonade hat
Last night I worked on chasing the piece. Chasing is repairing the surface from where the sprues were cut off).
Experiment.......
with a new burnout furnace. With this small furnace (designed by David Medina built by me with his instructions) the piece is poured in the burnout furnace instead of heating it in a big enclosed furnace and then moving it to a bucket of sand to pour the bronze.
"Happy dog"
happy dog
Ink on plastic
5' X 7'
"happy dog XIII" mono print
Ink and charcoal
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happy dog XIII monoprint
11" X 15"
I ouched this up with charcoal
One of my favorites
Wire cloth - building the patina.
Refired to help break down the stainless coating.
Next step - time to take a sledge hammer and break out the plaster.
The finish is coming along.
The he next step is to spray it with a bathroom cleanser to speed up the rusting process.