“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 […]
A Multi Pieced Work in Granitefor Portland’s TriMet Milwaukie/Main Street Light Rail Station in Milwaukie, Oregon. “Threshold” spans the length of the Milwaukie/Main Street Station, with three pieces that take their cues from the site’s history. The north end of the platform is in downtown Milwaukie, while the south end faces Kellogg Lake. The lake […]
The planning for Seattle’s 2016 Flower and Garden Show in February has begun. Kerin Monica Hawkinson has agreed to take on the coordination of this year’s NWSSA booth at the show. As a member, you may display your work at this show where thousands of people will see it. Watch for the NWSSA list serve notice […]
YouTube’s Living Room Symposia for the stay-at-home carver Dressed in sweats and relaxing in the privacy of our homes, rain pelting at the windows, our own Workshops, for many of us, are but a distant memory. Nevertheless we can, with a click of the keyboard, have small private stone carving tutorials brought to us at […]
“What’s your iconography?” This is an important question for an artist and one that we answer unconsciously every time we shape a stone or make a mark. What we bring to that effort is the history and experience of our lives and whether it is ancient Greek and Roman, Renaissance, Abstract, Contemporary, Mickey and Minnie, […]
I carved Storyteller last summer for our local studio tour. The basalt column is ten feet tall and weighs 4500 pounds. My goal was to capture the free form fluidity of line drawing in the stone and to express that energy in the final outcome. I started by quickly drawing hundreds of lines on each […]
Lisa Svircicwww.artgesture.com “Winter’s Approaching” I received my Fine Art’s Degree in Painting/Drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and spent my last semester in Italy and Europe. I went to the former Soviet Union during my Spring Break, which gave me a chance to experience the incredible art in the Hermitage Museum. These early experiences, plus […]
Northwest Stone Sculptors Association 1st Annual Outdoor Sculpture ShowUnique Stone Carvings by Professional Artists from around the world! Saturday, August 29th, 2015 11 am – 4 pm Suttle Lake Camp 29551 SW Suttle Lake Loop Sisters, OR 97759 Join the members of the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association for an inaugural outdoor sculpture show & afternoon […]
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