New Sculpture "Origin of Species" bronze, steel, 23K gold lea

Anna & Steven hot waxing "Pastoral Dreamer"

Setting up Sculpture for the 2014 Oklahoma Festival of the Arts

This is really the last shot, Anna Rutherford took the photos, had to get her in one of them.

Pulling up at 7:15am in a light drizzle. Wouldn't be an Arts Festival without at least a hint of inclement weather.

Unstrapping the artwork

Positioning Horny Toad Tome in the sculpture tent.

Desert Pastoral, Watership Down, and Horny Toad Tome

Making sure the hook doesn't hit us on the head.

David Phelps & Jose Rodriguez

Sculpture Garden was curated by Tony Morton. (on the left)

Off she goes.

How to make a brick facade…….

turn into a glass facade.

Going down.

Matt was a very skilled crane operator.

Legs next

Perfect!

Finishing Piece for OKC Festival of the Arts

Working on Pastoral Dreamer. New American Beauty in the background

Getting ready for this year's OKC Festival of the Arts Sculpture Garden.

Almost finished with small "American Beauty" as Anna deconstructs the big one

Anna Rutherford taking apart original "American Beauty"

Almost finished sculpting smaller "American Beauty"

the boneyard

  

Christie Hackler goofing with "American Beauty" ear

Close up shot of one of Shawn Meyer's "housewife" sculptures

Deinstallation of work at the Oklahoma Contemporary

Anna's job when not behind the Camera

Slowly raising the piece up with pry bar  & block stacks

Steve Boyd checking for clearance

Dolly in back, pallet jack in front

Securing bridge between loading dock & trailer

Lowering piece onto trailer

Jose supervising

Ready to secure work on trailer

Time to go.

New Sculpting Room Open for Business!

Today I'm sculpting in the new room. My office was flooded during the tornado in the spring of 2013. I decided to completely reconfigure the space into a sculpting room. It now has 10 foot ceilings, decent full spectrum lighting and a nice bathroom. Let the fun begin!

Anna Rutherford chasing waxes and also shot most of the photos in this post.

resuming work on the .6 X life-size American Beauty.

New Bathroom

Jose Rodriguez working on shelves for his new house

This is what the space looked like after the storm. Corbin Schroeder doing demolition.