This week's blog celebrates the Wild Turkey.
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Showing posts with label Jake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jake. Show all posts
Monday, 23 November 2015
#687 Wild Turkey Review
Sunday, 7 June 2015
#641 Prix de West, 2015
By this time next Sunday, Prix de West in Oklahoma City will be over and I'll post and update.
For more information about the exhibition, go to the museum and catalogue links and the blog links below:
This year is my 27th year to be invited to participate in the Prix de West Exhibition at the National Cowboy Museum and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City. Like most artists, it's important for me to introduce new work at the prestigious event and no one wants to drop the ball! The collector and museum expects new work and my studio method and working challenges demand it. The Prix de West, like the Autry, Eiteljorg, Briscoe, Jackson, Cody, and others gives the artist an opportunity to engage in a catalogued museum gala venue and sale that is as good as the artist chooses to make it . . .
I can't imagine not giving it my best and respond with new work and over the years, I've attempted to do just that.
Below, are images of one of the new works for the exhibition entitled, "Jake".
The sculpture is a quiet study of a young male Wild Turkey and is shown cast in bronze and during patina.
The patina is achieved by applying liver of sulfur to cold metal then scrubbing back, revealing darks in the negatives
and lights on the high points. Next the sculpture is heated and cupric nitrate is sizzled on to the hot metal.
Then, ferric nitrate is applied while the bronze is still hot. The sculpture is waxed with Johnson's Paste Wax
after cool-down, and "Jake" is placed on a walnut base.
The close-ups reveal the "woodsy" feel and coloration I was attempting to convey with the patina.
For more information about see post
#635 May 17, 2015
The patina is achieved by applying liver of sulfur to cold metal then scrubbing back, revealing darks in the negatives
and lights on the high points. Next the sculpture is heated and cupric nitrate is sizzled on to the hot metal.
Then, ferric nitrate is applied while the bronze is still hot. The sculpture is waxed with Johnson's Paste Wax
after cool-down, and "Jake" is placed on a walnut base.
The close-ups reveal the "woodsy" feel and coloration I was attempting to convey with the patina.
For more information about see post
#635 May 17, 2015
Go to the BLOG INDEX on the right for more information.
Blog, text, photos, drawings, and sculpture . . . © Sandy Scott and Trish
Sunday, 17 May 2015
#635 "Jake"
Please see the previous post for more information about this subject.
Wild Turkeys have a distinguished ancestry and are truly an all-American bird.
The big bird has survived since early pioneer days and our forefathers once
feasted upon its delicious meat just as we do now.
For wariness and cleverness, it is unsurpassed by any other bird but it's possible
to get relatively close to them in the wild at Brookgreen Gardens because
they are used to human activity.
www.brookgreen.org
Over the years, the species has been one of my favorite subjects for not only sculpture,
but for etchings and drawings. Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina offers
an "in-the-field" experience and a great place to observe, sketch, and photograph Wild Turkeys.
Below, are images of a new sculpture entitled "Jake". The bronze will be introduced at the 2015 Prix de West Exhibition
in Oklahoma City next month at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The show opens June, 13.
Shown below, is the clay model in progress.
Below, our Brittany, Penny joins Trish in the mold room while making the flexible rubber mold of Jake.
Below, I'm at the foundry placing the sculpture on a base plate for welding and the addition of terrain shapes.
Below are two photos of Jake on the patina rack . . . after patina and before wax.
A Jake Turkey is an immature male turkey. A Jake has shorter feathers on each side
of the tail fan and a small snood above the beck. A snood is a flappy piece of skin that hangs over a turkey's beak.
All of the tail feathers on a mature Tom will be the same length and will appear as a symmetrical semi-circle
when he struts. See the previous post for an image of a strutting Tom and the sculpture entitled "Tom".
Below, are photos of Wild Turkeys taken last month at Brookgreen Gardens.
The photos shown below are of a mature male gobbler or Tom. . . . a Jake's beard is short and grows with age.
Wild Turkeys have a distinguished ancestry and are truly an all-American bird.
The big bird has survived since early pioneer days and our forefathers once
feasted upon its delicious meat just as we do now.
For wariness and cleverness, it is unsurpassed by any other bird but it's possible
to get relatively close to them in the wild at Brookgreen Gardens because
they are used to human activity.
www.brookgreen.org
Over the years, the species has been one of my favorite subjects for not only sculpture,
but for etchings and drawings. Brookgreen Gardens in Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina offers
an "in-the-field" experience and a great place to observe, sketch, and photograph Wild Turkeys.
Below, are images of a new sculpture entitled "Jake". The bronze will be introduced at the 2015 Prix de West Exhibition
in Oklahoma City next month at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. The show opens June, 13.
"Jake"
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Shown below, is the clay model in progress.
Below, our Brittany, Penny joins Trish in the mold room while making the flexible rubber mold of Jake.
Below, I'm at the foundry placing the sculpture on a base plate for welding and the addition of terrain shapes.
Below are two photos of Jake on the patina rack . . . after patina and before wax.
A Jake Turkey is an immature male turkey. A Jake has shorter feathers on each side
of the tail fan and a small snood above the beck. A snood is a flappy piece of skin that hangs over a turkey's beak.
All of the tail feathers on a mature Tom will be the same length and will appear as a symmetrical semi-circle
when he struts. See the previous post for an image of a strutting Tom and the sculpture entitled "Tom".
Below, are photos of Wild Turkeys taken last month at Brookgreen Gardens.
The photos shown below are of a mature male gobbler or Tom. . . . a Jake's beard is short and grows with age.
Go to the BLOG INDEX on the right for more information.
Blog, text, photos, drawings, and sculpture . . . © Sandy Scott and Trish
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