materials: steel, bronze, resin, paint, rust

size: 19″ x 14″

©Beau Smith 2021 

materials: steel, bronze, paint

size: 31” x 23”

I play with materials. When it was just copper and bronze, mainly, even then, I would change it up every sculpture I made. Every single time, something had to be different about the sculpture. Otherwise, why be an artist? Even when I would try to make one sculpture as exactly like the one before it, that, in itself, was a task of certain craftsmanship. 

This frog has hair. How did that happen? I meant for it to happen. I was experimenting with nylon rope – or plastic rope of some kind – for the lips, which I would then seal in resin. You don’t really see the rope. But as I was cutting the rope, I saw how neat the fibers looked, and I found that I could permanently affix the fibers to the sculpture. Voila! Hair. And this frog, this frog is the very first one I did that to. Talk about a collector’s item. 

​This is also the very first frog sculpture I made with a wavy mouth. He’s very special. For the price, you can’t beat it. 

Not all my frogs talk this way. But this one does. He’s a standing thinking frog. But a standing thinking frog of a particular character. He’s a little bit goofy. (Now how in my mind did I think of making a goofy frog character? Not an unreasonable departure for me.) 

​Here’s me saying how he talks: 

Maybe he’s thinking of what I just said. He is, after all, looking up at the audio track.