Archive for January, 2012
Skin-on-Frame Cardinal Finished!
Posted in skin-on-frame birds, tagged art, bird, Birding, cardinal, Folk, skin-on-frame on January 29, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Park County Bald Eagles – 2012
Posted in Field Study, On the Road, Photography, tagged Blue Jay, cat, covered bridge, eagle, Indiana, kitten, titmouse, turkey, turkey run, woodpecker on January 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Photographer and friend Ernie Mills accompanied me on my annual West Union (Park County), Indiana bald eagle trip. For particulars about where and when and what to expect visit my earlier post here. We left home at 5:30 and arrived at the West Union Covered Bridge at 7:30 as planned. Several other folks had gathered [...]
Skin-on-Frame Cardinal Update
Posted in skin-on-frame birds, tagged art, bird, Birding, carving, Folk, skin-on-frame, woodworking on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A quick check-in from phone. Most color applied. More details and distressing to come.
The Most Important Show of My Year
Posted in Art Shows, Craft Shows, Indiana Artisans, tagged art, artisan, craft, food, hoosier, Indiana, show on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last year my work, folk bird carvings, was juried into Indiana Artisans. This group helps brand and promote outstanding Indiana arts and crafts. The Indiana Artisan Marketplace is the showcase event for this group and is the finest show that I’ve been involved with. It’s coming up again, fast, and I will be busy carving [...]
See Bald Eagles (Lots of Them) in Indiana
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reblogged from 50 Little Birds: Two years ago I joined a large group to see bald eagles in Western Indiana. On a sub-zero winter dawn we gathered on a bridge and over the next hour we oberved about 50 bald eagles. Since then I’ve wanted to return to this spot. As much as I enjoy [...]
Amazing Bird Images
Posted in Bird References, Book Review, tagged art, Birding, Birds, Photography, reference on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
From Audubon Magazine’s Website- Read article here. See additional images here.
TAI Webinar: A Performer’s Toolkit – Observations for Traditional Musicians
Posted in Music, tagged Folk, hannah davis, Indiana, Indiana University, jon kay, performance, performing on January 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Reblogged from the Traditional Arts Indiana Website Traditional Arts Indiana’s first webinar of 2012 is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 26, from 4:30-5:30 p.m., and the event is going to be something of a hybrid. In addition to real-time (and free) digital access to the webinar at http://breeze.iu.edu/tai_webinars, there will be a live (and also free) [...]
A Quick Check-in – Skin on Frame Birds
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a few days ago about progress on my skin-on-frame prototype, a northern cardinal. I’m adapting skin-on-frame boat building techniques to large bird sculpture. It’s a medium of my own devising and technical problems are frequent. This is truly a trial and error project and most trials are errors. I recovered the frame on [...]
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