My son asked, “can you get that little man down?” He sits on a shelf in my workshop.
When I wanted to be a ventriloquist my Granddad guided me in building this fellow.
He is very good at yelling and being surprised.
Simple but effective pivoting jaw and head, and swinging limbs.
I have been honored by another post by Robbie Pruitt about one of my paintings, Go On, Saint Thomas.
Big Jonah underpainting (5′ x 3′).
Carving a cottonwood lamp-stand with gouge and adze.
Drawing out Jonah on the canvas.
Day 3: Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Viridian, Flake White, Phthalo Blue
Day 2: Yellow Ochre, Viridian, Flake White
Mikey, here is the photo of Moses which you requested. I did my best, for it is a tricky painting to photograph.
The Mighty Acts:
Detail of Walking Man’s axe.
Walking Man’s hands, head, axe and walking stick are most recent.
Over the past month I have been painting the second layer of Walking Man’s shirt and trousers, and boot. Hands and head are next.
Building layers onto the upper half panel of Walking Man and the Ancient Ocean. Here, the clouds, sky, middle and far landscapes, and the cliff have all been recipients of a second layer on top of the underpainting. Below are two details, and the panel in two previous states.
underpainting and drawing
Robbie Pruit has written an insightful and gracious review of my painting Jacob Wrestling With God.
http://robbiepruitt.blogspot.com/2011/12/stone-and-knee-art-review-of-jacob.html
Robbie also wrote a review of the relief print of the same name and subject here.
Early Fronts-piece design for The School of the Transfer of Energy, featuring a drawing of a goatsucker.
Cover for the first handbook of The School of the Transfer of Energy.
Below is a revised and very pared down introduction to what the School of the Transfer of Energy represents:
The School of the Transfer of Energy
The Institute of Signs and Levers
The School of the Transfer of Energy was established as a tool to bring a simple order and understanding to a broad range of arts, crafts and agriculture based disciplines and the outputs of those disciplines. The Institute of Signs and Levers refers to a view of those disciplines as a deliberate and purposeful technology towards the receiving, cultivation and realization of relationship to God the Father, Son and Spirit.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 