Prix de West

Me, my sculpture and my friend Connie, the model for this piece.

I finished my sculpture workshop today with John Coleman at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. I have learned so much. It has really been an incredible learning experience. To day I worked on my sculpture of our model Connie, a Seminole/Pawnee. It still needs work but I am pleased with how it is progressing.

My sculpture and the model.

I said that this is a sculpture of Connie, but it really is not a sculpture of him, it is a sculpture that I used him as a reference for. I have made him as a Pueblo Indian with a bandanna and buffalo skin robe.Of course I made him look older and like he has had a harder life than the model.

John Coleman telling our class about one of his sculptures.

 We toured the Prix de West Show today. It is really incredible. John has three sculptures and a sketch in the show. The show overall is one of the best ones that I have seen in several years. I will try to come up here and see it again before it ends.

John telling our class about another of his sculptures