Scheduling Your Drawing Time By Bill Weissinger Scheduling time to draw is important. As an example, I’ve set out below my personal log of a recent drawing project – generalized for your benefit – for which I’d scheduled one hour. What if terrorists are attacking at this very moment? One must keep up with what […]
ART AND SCULPTURE Thoughts on how drawing can help us sculpt. Taken from my notes on a 2008 lecture by Bob Leverich with some input from others. By Bill Weissinger For those born without the innate gift to draw well, acquiring an artist’s skill seems undoable. “Not so,” said Bob Leverich in the summer of […]
AND THE BEAT GOES ON…. A report from The NWSSA 2016 Winter Holiday Party By Michael Yeaman – Sculpture NorthWest roving reporter It may still be getting pitch dark at 6pm around here but it was bright and cheery at the NWSSA’s 2016 winter holiday party on Saturday night, January 9th. Our annual festive event […]
“Patience Pays Off” By Leon White Having worked Randy Zieber’s dark green Brucite which makes wonderful plant forms, I had to try his Lime Green Brucite. I am not an abstract artist, though I try at times. At Camp B a few years ago, I had the piece of lime green and wanted to make […]
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT By Bob Leverich Who are you and how has art come to fit into your life? I grew up on a dairy farm in western Wisconsin not far from the Mississippi, in an era when rural kids had the whole world to range over – pastures and fields, orchards and woods, hills and […]
From the President…. It’s the winter months and I know some of you are hunkered down until things warm up and the days get longer. Others are using the longer nights to read, relax, and contemplate. This year has seen many new faces, lots of energy and enthusiasm, and a growing interest in stone carving. […]
From the President…. The second annual International Sculpture Day was this April 24th. Maybe you had work on display or took the opportunity, if you weren’t tied to your display, to visit venues displaying sculpture. Maybe next year one of you can help NWSSA play a larger role in organizing the display of STONE sculpture […]
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