Little Frog

Here's a new little guy that I did for my friend Terry. The little 8x10 acrylic with wax was a lot of fun.

OIlfield Art Gallery

Starting last week, I have 12 pieces at the Oilfield Art Gallery in Lloydminster, Alberta. I was contacted this spring by Jackie Mohrbutter, the gallery owner about putting some of my work in her gallery.



So, at the end of August, I brought up some pieces that are not oilfield related (some of the gallery is oilfield, some is not). I did one old-style derrick in wax, but otherwise the pieces consist of the Grazing Buffalo, Bighorn Sheep, a winterwolf, Venus in wax, a couple of abstracts and a number of others.






I'm really excited to have my wax "Clemmer Technique/Effect" in a gallery setting. Last year at the Wainwright Arts Festival, was really the first time that my wax/acrylic paintings were on display. I think the technique and the paintings themselves take a little getting used to, perhaps it grows on you (not like a fungus either), and it takes awhile to appreciate the detail in the texture.

The Crow and Buffalo

These little guys, both 8x10s were commissions from the Brod family in Illinois. I met Don and Deb at the ISWNE conference in Rapid City, and although Deb didn't win the silent auction bid for a little buffalo similar to the one above (Bix Waltner took that one home), but she was interested in a buffalo in wax for Don.
She liked the idea of a crow as well, for her, so I came up with these two little fellows and in turn for a few dollars, she also sent me along two of her autographed novels. Pretty good trade, I'd say.
I think they turned out well.