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.

How can I make the surface of my sculptures as beautiful as they are when they are entirely copper and given a blue-green patina? If I work with other materials, how can I accomplish a look as nice as that? First, I tried created a faux patina with paint, mostly. Then I let go and started just painting and doing other things to create color and texture. One thing I did was begin to work with cloth. In December 2021, I went to a fabric store, and came out with lots of fabrics I found there that I just loved. This frog I wrapped with a piece of one of them. He’s a Valentine’s Day frog, for sure, and he is the first of his kind. He’s wrapped (dare I say, like a gift?) with heart fabric, which I then laminated with resin. So it is very permanent and sealed.

I am expecting this particular treatment I will be duplicating. But this one is the very first. The absolute very first of its kind. I expect to blog about that. I am also timestamping my blog so I can undeniably prove when a work was created. 

I also call him (or her) Vitruvian Man, Almost, because that is the pose that Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous naked man he drew standing in a circle is called. It is almost, but not quite, in that posture, mainly because I would have had to secure him in a more complicated way, to make him exactly like Vitruvian Man. Vitruvian Man is supposed to be of perfect proportions. I like to think this sculpture is perfect. Well, almost. And isn’t that how we feel about our loved ones? 

This sculpture is sold.

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. 

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The Talking Characters in

Is It Fair?

What I was trying to say… This is working as well as I could figure it to work. Of course, you would have to say a lot to fill this particular balloon.

Try it.

Try it.