#95 Throw on another log: "loose" con't . . .

There is no technical trick for modeling in a "loose" manner.  The sculptor
must simply feel or sense that he or she has created a meaningful shape
and surface passage.  This cannot be accomplished without understanding
the subject's anatomy.

Take any man and develop his mind and soul and heart 

to the fullest by the right work and the right study 

and then let him find through this training 

the utmost freedom of expression.  

For a man ceases to imitate when he has achieved 

the power to express fully and freely his own ideas.

                                                           - Robert Henri

Roosting Rooster Fragment I

19"H 26"W 6"D

with detail below 

"Loose" is how it looks, not how it's done.

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#8 Remarque: "Roosting Rooster Fragment I"

When our studio and headquarters of 20 years was relocated from Fort Collins, Colorado to Lander, Wyoming we bought property on the Popo Agie River (a tributary of the Wind River) and built a log house and studio near the foundry that casts my work.


Roosting Rooster was created for the new kitchen with our enormous Rhode Island Red rooster we called Old Red used as a model. He bit the dust a few weeks after the piece was completed when a fox raided the chicken coop.   His stunningly beautiful tail feathers are in my extensive feather collection.

Roosting Rooster Fragment I

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