My New Inspiration

My Peace Flower on the Table with Her Friends
16x20
paint marker on canvas

Working Large Scale

Desert Trees

chalk pastel

24"x36"

Oil Pastels

9"x12"

oil pastel on canvas

My Old Fashioned Past Time

My Dog Fito

My Lime Green Lizard Monster

A Picture On All Sides

Country Hill Scenery

The Thinking Tree

My Abstract

Hour Glass Timepiece to be Cast in Metal

Hour glass sculpted in plasticine clay with found object inclusion (beads, buttons, toy animals) 

for texture.

7 sculpted pieces prepared for 2-piece sand molds.

Brushing off the parting sand.

2-piece molds are complete.

Brushing on mold wash to help with a clean and detailed casting. 

Will glue the molds back together and they are ready for molten aluminum. 

The Annual Art Show at Sister Kenny Institute is Coming Up Soon!

Little Old School House Up On the Hill

The 50th Annual International Art Show by Artists with Disabilities 
May 2 to 24, 2013

Grand Opening

Thursday, May 2, 2013

5 to 8 p.m

I will be there at the Grand Opening - stop by to see me and find out if I have received any awards this year!

http://www.allinahealth.org/ahs/ski.nsf/page/artshow

For more information, please call 612-863-4872

Self-Advocacy Art Exhibit

Paintings on Exhibition

2013 Minnesota
Self-Advocacy
Conference

April 26 – 27, 2013

A conference for adults and transition-aged youth with disabilities, as well as allies within the self-advocacy movement. “Together, Yes We CAN!

Crowne Plaza St. Paul Riverfront Hotel

11 East Kellogg Boulevard

St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 

(651) 292-1900

http://mnselfadvocacyconference.com/

Transforming a Landscape Drawing into Metal!

Little Red School House Up On the Hill

The Cast Metal Process

'Little Red School House Up On the Hill' marker drawing.

Sculpted in plasticene clay, put in a wood flask, 
and ready for the sand mold.

Mixing resin bonded sand for first half of the mold.

Pouring wet sand onto sculpture.

Packing down the sand onto the sculpture 
to get good detail of the sculpture in the mold.

Pack down flat and smooth and let set up for 12 hours.

Flip mold over and make other half of the mold.

Mix sand.

Pack down firmly on top of other half of the mold 

and let set up for 12 hours.

Open up the mold.

Separate the two halves of the mold.

Remove the plasticene clay sculpture.

Carving into the sand mold to create "channels" for the liquid metal 

to flow to the sculpture.