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Wood Sculpture Techniques at the Portland Japanese Garden

Wood Sculpture Techniques at the Portland Japanese Garden - May 2019

My art tells stories, my collaborator is wood. In my current series, I recycle construction debris, coaxing these manufactured shapes into revealing their natural irregularities. I work with cross-sections of wood and pay special attention to the grain and texture. With certain wood sculpture techniques, the history of the tree becomes an integral part of […]

Filed Under: Blog, Education, Material-Media, Process, Sculptor Tagged With: Patrick Gracewood, Portland Japanese Garden, Wood Sculpture, Wood Sculpture Techniques Author: Patrick Gracewood

Dance with Me: Sculpture, Dance and Creative Collaboration

Patrick Gracewood: Sculpture, Dance and Creative Collaboration

My comment, “Sculpture and dance are closely related, much like a creative collaboration” had left some people puzzled at a recent Pacific Northwest Sculptors member meeting. I see dance and sculpture as a continuum of movement and stillness, the ephemeral to the eternal. Almost everything we know of early civilizations comes from sculpture. Indeed, if […]

Filed Under: Blog, Events, Material-Media, Process, Sculptor, Sculpture Commissions Tagged With: Creative Collaboration, dance, Isamu Noguchi, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Patrick Gracewood, Paul Taylor, Robert Morris, Robert Rauschenberg, sculptor collaborations, Sculpture process, Simone Forti, Trisha Brown Author: Patrick Gracewood

Art Inspiration – My Oracle…The Ocean

My sculpture medium is paper clay. It has a high water content and I have found that I can slam a slab of it against a “rock” that I set up in my studio and the effect is very like what I observe at the beach.

Filed Under: Blog, Material-Media, Members, Process Tagged With: Michele Collier, paper clay, paper clay sculptor, Sculpture process Author: Michele Collier

Riipppp – How to Create Spontaneous Visual Art

Joe Cartino - Sculptor - 2019 - Dada Dodads

The joy of creation is why I do art. Over the past few decades I’ve explored the “anything can be art” philosophy found in Dada and Pop art in traditional sculpture, collage, and a series of satirical toy and game assemblages.

Filed Under: Blog, Education, Material-Media, Process Tagged With: Chas Martin, creativity workshop, Dada, Dodads, Joe Cartino, mixed media, mixed media sculpture, sculpture class, Visual art. collaborations, Workshops Author: Joe Cartino

Elements of art: Thoughts about Lines

Pacific Northwest Sculptors member George Heath's classic comic collection

Just there on the office floor are 3 good sized boxes of comics. They are there because a friend of my nephew’s passed away and willed him his collection. They are Golden Age comics. That is from the 40’s, 50’s and early 60’s. There are several holy grails of comic art in there. In particular, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Education, Journal, Material-Media, Members, Process Tagged With: cartoon, comics, expression, George Heath Author: George Heath

Giacometti – Charioteers Rolling in the Money

Robert McWilliams sculpture, Spoon Charioteer

A hundred and one million dollars is a lot of money but that’s what hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen paid in 2015 for Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture, The Chariot. Giacometti was a multifaceted artist who achieved his greatest recognition for his freakishly elongated spider-like human figures. A prominent existentialist philosopher explained Giacometti’s figures as depicting […]

Filed Under: Blog, Journal, Material-Media, Members, Newsletter, Sculptor Tagged With: Alberto Giacometti, Carving, pricing, Robert McWilliams, Sculpture, spoon carving, whittling Author: Robert McWilliams

Common Sculpture Tools – Orange Plastic Bowl

Pacific Northwest Sculptors member Andy Kennedy's orange plastic bowl.

Pacific Northwest Sculptors member Andy Kennedy’s thoughts on unique materials and tools in installation art.

Filed Under: Blog, Material-Media, Members, Process, Sculptor Tagged With: Amber Metz, Andy Kennedy, Collaboration, conceptual art, found objects, Installation Art, International Sculpture Day, tools Author: Jessica Stroia

Rick Gregg Steel Sculpture Turns Up At Portland Estate Auction

A Portland woman attending an estate auction came home with much more than she bargained for recently when she bought a small and very distinctive steel sculpture.  Past PNWS President Carole Murphy was contacted by the woman who purchased a 12-inch steel sculpture that turned out to be the work of the late PNWS member […]

Filed Under: Blog, Material-Media, Newsletter Tagged With: Bringer, Carole Murphy, Rick Gregg, steel sculpture Author: Rocky Jaeger

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