There's something to be said for consistency

As I develop my skills as a sculptor I really try to repeat my successes. It is easy to make a nose look like a nose after you try 1000 times. But to repeatedly acheive the likeness of a nose after a few repeated attempts is much more difficult. Thats one of the reasons the current project I am working on has so much meaning for me. It is a challange to myself to not just create a single good piece, but to repeat that success. To repeat it in different scenes, and individual pieces. I want the style and theme to be consistant, and show I havent just created an accident.They are all depictions of late 1800's era fisherman across the United States. Winslow Homers paintings have always been a fixture around my family, and his paintings are some of the inspiration behind my pieces. His impressionistic style is something I have tried to capture in the texture of the clay.

"Dawn Breaker" is the first Piece of the series, and depicts a herring Fisherman working his net. The  exaustion, but also the determination he works with come across in the face of the fisherman. It is one of my favorite pieces so far. It is at the foundry now and the first bronze one shuld be out soon.

Next I have a good start with "On The Rocks". A birch bark canoe precariously positioned between the rocks, at the moment of either netting or loosing a wild fish, has the fly fishermans complete attention. Little room for error has created an intense situation, where the fisherman has everything to gain or loose in an instant.

The Third piece hasnt quite hit the sculpting board yet. When it does, It will be posted here! You can see more pictures of the project HERE.