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

Sculpture, paintout, and workshop

Arab Spring
bronze on granite
$1,200

I finished my Arabian horse and am pleased with the way it turned out. I had a lot of help and input from friends and other "horse" people, especially my friend Sabine Higgins. She really knows her horses.

Kent doing a pastel of one of the houses on the  Gingerbread Tour of Homes.

The Paint Historic Waxahachie paintout finished up Sunday. I finished nine paintings. It was a really great event. I saw and painted with so many great friends and so many great paintings were produced by them. My friend Ted Clemens won best of show, Kent Brewer won first place, and Olivette Hubler won second place.

Five of my 8 x 10 paintings done during the week

Three 4 x 6 and one more of my 8 x 10s

The sculptor John Coleman doing a demo at his workshop in Oklahoma City.

 I attended a great workshop with the sculptor John Coleman in Oklahoma City at the National cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.It has been a really great workshop and  John is a super teacher.

One of the sculptures I started, an almost life size bust of an American Indian.