Casting and Bone Installations

This week at Osage has been a good week. I have done a lot of mold making and casting. As of right now I have just finished two rubber molds of seal bones. Yes seal Bones! No I didn’t kill it! But I have a flipper bone and a femur of some kind. I still have to give them the real test and cast them but that’s coming very soon. I am very excited about finishing the new molds. I am picking out new bones to start new molds. As of right now it looks like a horse leg bone and a couple of cow ribs and clavicle I think but don’t quite know. I’m an artist not a vet LOL. I might have to order more rubber to keep the bone mold making going. Here at Osage I have the time to concentrate on these things instead of being consumed by my everyday life in Cincy. But I miss a lot of my friends and motivation that Cincinnati offered me. But still all I do here is either Sculpture, work on grants and shows, research galleries, go to museums in St. Louis , walk my dog, feed Lily the horse some pears and sleep in so life is good. But I still miss my Crew back in Cincy and all the projects I have waiting for me when I get back. Here at Osage I also finished two more Bone Installation. I am very excited about this! It so cool to have a place to install these Bone installations. I have 165 acres of woods and fields to install whatever I want. So I will be looking for new spots for the next installation October 1st. The Bone installation in the rock garden this week turned out so awesome! I had to sit with it for quite awhile! Took like 200 pictures of the installation for documentation and to apply for shows. Sad because all that saw the original was me and some animals but who knows who will stumbled upon it and enjoyed it. I can only imagine if I came across something like that unexpected and what I would think. I would be very inquisitive and have lots of questions. Maybe video of people’s reactions will be a great idea for the future but until then it rests out in the elements with all the other life in the woods. I have pictures of all my installation at flicker if you want to see the installations I’ve been working on. I also have got the casting studio in full swing. Casting plaster for installations here at Osage and waxes for bronzes for when I get back to Cincy from existing molds soon to be new molds to be casting new bones for new sculpture. But that’s not until next week. As always thank you for your ongoing support and the Art Revolution might be out in nowhere land but my voice is still just as loud and will be with new motivation thanks to all of you! Until next week love ya!

Casting and Cleaning Bones at Osage

This week at Osage has been very productive. There are two major events that happened this week. The first major event is I got my studio up and running. I am now casting and making molds. I have started casting in plaster for more installation here at Osage. I also started casting waxes to get the wax work done here at Osage so I can get two more Bronzes done when I get back to Cincinnati and start casting again at Casting Arts and Technologies. Then I also have two molds started. I am awaiting a package from Casting Arts and Technologies for the proper separator, cups and a scale to weigh out the rubber for the molds. When I get the package the mold work will be off and making rubber molds again. I have so many bones that a lot of them will have to come back to Cincinnati and make molds of them in my studio.

This brings me to my second major event. This week I got the opportunity to fully take an animal a deer to be precise from living to bone. It was an awesome experience! I really believe everyone who eats meat should go through this for the very reason you take a life when you eat meat. There is a transformation of living beauty of a deer to being food to feed you or your family. Hard to describe that transformation from life to food but it is very primal and uplifting as well as humbling and a sense of thanks to the recently decease. I learned how to field dress an animal and skin an animal. I also learned a sharp knife is your best friend when skinning an animal. We ended up having the deer roughly cut down and put into the fridge in a matter of an hour. Then I took the head and rest of the deer went into the woods for other animals to feed and live off the remains. The head took six hours of boiling and then some cleaning of what was left on the bones. Now I have a full female deer skull and I really have a connection with this addition to my collection. I sometimes feel like the Predator from the movies collecting these skulls almost like trophies LOL but really the beauty I see in them is my fascination as well as the representation behind them. I can’t wait till next week when I get a buffalo skull and possibly and elk! I will also start a new Bone Installation here at Osage and be casting my butt off I hope. As always thank you for your ongoing support!

Bone Collecting

Well today at Osage I learned about chiggers! I have about 100 chigger bites from walking in the woods and fields. I did however found some remedies. One is sulfur soap two is massive OFF sprayed all over and three is Benadryl and anti-itch lotion so you can sleep. On the up side I did get almost a whole horse skeleton out of my pain and suffering. I am really excited about this horse skeleton. There is so many new shapes of bone and I can wait till they dry out so I can start making molds of them. Hope to reclaim some cow skeletons tomorrow. I am still working on the bone installation here at the studio. The piece has grown in size using two different shapes and has a circular repetitive pattern throughout its whole structure. It’s coming along really nicely.

It’s another day at Osage and today I went back into the wood where they told me where a whole cow skeleton would be. Let’s just say I almost cried when I saw the whole skeleton laying there. It was so beautiful and there were so many bones I have not seen before. I am very excited to get started on picking out bones and making molds of them to start some more sculpture. So in two days I have almost collected like 100 bones. I am so excited and can’t wait to start playing with them. Yes you can call me Bone Daddy LOL

The summery this week has been a pretty good week for me here at Osage. I now have two skeletons I almost have my casting studio up and running. I hope to be casting plaster and wax bones and start set up for some new molds in this studio next week for sure. I also got my care package from my friends at Suder’s Art Store. I got my drawing supplies so I can start drawing bones or skulls. My life here is nothing but bones, sculpture and living life on a farm. All work very well together. I hope to next month start doing some installations in the woods and documenting them. But for now I am blogging to you drinking coffee and petting my dog Ruckus and Ruckus new friend Zeus. Till next week signing off and thank you all for your Support!!! The Art Revolution is making mad art for the battles to come. Keep me proud and keep the motivation high!!!!

Osage Artist in Residency

Well her I am at Osage Artist in Residency program in Osage county Missouri. I am really out in farm country and I have meet Lily and her mom (horses) 4 mo mo’s and the chicken coop with about 12 chickens 2 roosters where I am suppose to go and collect my eggs but I haven’t gotten to that yet. I have been here at Osage just about a week and I have gotten a better feel to my surroundings but I’m still getting use to the slow down mode and focusing primarily on my sculpture. This week all I have been doing is unpacking and settling in. I also have started to do some trail walking with Ruckus my greyhound and bone collecting in the forest. So far I have collected turtle bones and a skull of a bird of prey. Still don’t know what kind of bird but I say a vulture. I did manage to start assembling some sculpture in the studio to get it ready for installations around Osage. The food here is very different. I have eaten deer chili, fried chicken, poke sausage and beef. All raised and killed and processed here on this farm. Sounds a little cruel but I really feel better eating like this and seeing how the animals are raised then eating processed America. Other then that I hope to get casting, sculpting, and mold making by the end of next week. I also hope to have some pictures to show as well. As always thank you so much for your support!!! The Art Revolution grows from you and you are the Art Revolution!!! Keep me proud and keep the motivation going! Until next week love ya!