New Blog

I have moved to a new blog at www.ilovesculpture.com

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Fire Goddess

This is Kraig's latest piece entitled "Fire Goddess". This is yet another beautiful piece in is Goddess series.

Sculptural Pursuit

The Sculptural Pursuit magazine falls victim to this tough economy and has ceased publishing their magazine. Back issues can still be purchased here.

President Gordon B. Hinckley

This is the best bust of President Hinckley that is currently in existence. I am not only saying that because Kraig Varner who sculpted it is a Main Street Art artist, but also because it's absolutely true. He did a pristine job!

Frozen

As I came into work this morning it was a chilly 10 degrees. As cold as I felt I'm sure I felt better than the bronzes (Although they looked amazing!).


If you ever wondered what you would look like if you spent the night in subzero weather without your tent and sleeping bag my guess is you would look something like this.


I love the way the sun hits the frost and creates a highlight around the bronze. I think the bronzes look beautiful in this weather!

Sunset

Last nights sunset out the front door of the Alpine Art Center.

Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a great holiday break. I am excited to be back and looking towards the new year. I am planning on posting more regularly this year. I plan to post more of my recent sculpture, more work of the talented artists I work with, more of my own photography, more of EVERYTHING!

Kraig Varner

Kraig Varner is yet another talented Sculptor that our business: Main Street Art represents. These are a couple of photos I took today of his sculpture of Brigham Young. A monumental version of this sculpture resides in the Utah State Capital.

To see more of Kraig's work visit his website here.

Sunset

The Alpine Art Center is slowly adding more and more sculptures to the gardens. This was a picture I took a few months ago on my way to the car.

Summer Travels

We have done a lot of summer shows and events this year. One fun little note was that "Reflections" won third place in the Utah State Fair.

Dennis Smith

We have started representing the work for a couple other artist. One of which is Dennis Smith. He is a talented artist that has been sculpting for about 40 years now. He Sculpts, Paints, does abstract assemblages, he does it all!

Check out his work at www.smithsculpture.com

web site update

I have been working on an update to my web site, check it out when you get a chance.

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Bouncin' in Boulder City

I just received some fun news I wanted to share. Last year I took part in a sculpture show in Boulder City, Nevada. This is a unique outdoor show where you loan a piece for a year and it is installed on the city streets for the visitors of downtown Boulder City to enjoy. They award a small amount of money to the artists for being accepted and for transporting the piece. Now that the year was up, I was ready to go pick up my sculpture, however I just received a call informing me that my piece received the most People's Choice votes, and will be purchased to remain on permanent display in Boulder City!

Good girl, keep on Bouncin'!

Will spring ever come

This was the scene, yesterday April 16th, as I arrived at the Art Center. I think we are skipping spring this year.

Reflections

This was a fun photo I took of the piece in the early steps of the Patina process (the process of giving the bronze desired colors)

The finished bronze!

working on the foam

It has been a fun experience to work on the foam. I first spent some time carving and sanding down some flaws. When that was finished I started putting on a thin layer a clay over the entire piece. The foam provides much of the needed structure but still needs some adjustments and detailing. Once the thin coat of clay is finished I will spend the next couple of weeks fine tuning the clay until it is finished.
I will post a few more photos in a couple of weeks.

Life-size Spartan

We sent a wax copy of the Spartan to a company in Canada. They did a 3-d scan and with their milling machinery created a life size version of the Spartan. I will do a bit of carving in the foam and then coat it with clay and refine it even more.

The foam is a great way to get a head start on your larger work. The sculpture ends up requiring less clay and time to get to the finished piece.

Spartan

The Spartan is nearing completion. Here are a few photos of its current status.

Better photos

One of my current projects is getting better images of my work. I have built a little photo studio and purchased some lighting and have had a lot of fun learning more about photography. This is a preview of some of the updated photos. I plan on taking better images of all my work and when I'm done I will post them to the web site.

Head swap

I completed a commission for a family in San Francisco. They wanted the sculpture Emma's Garden but wanted the portrait to be their daughter. I sculpted a new head and this is the finished piece.