Life imitates art, imitates life
Life imitates art, imitates life
This weeks photo prompt from The Daily Post is, life imitates art. My first thought was Al’s sculptures. Often times his sculptures will be born from an idea he finds either in real life, or a photo. He then refines it to be what his vision for that is.
This raven sculpture is his best selling piece. The Storyteller was created because we love to watch the ravens, and listen to the stories they have to tell.
This past summer in Wyoming, this raven was telling stories right outside my window.
This is a new raven sculpture that Al has been working on. I took some artistic licence with the photo and put the sculpture in the sky.
Like the photo of this real raven.
Life imitates art, imitates life.
For the Dogwood 52 challenge we are to take a faceless portrait. Tell someones story without showing their face. My friend Rita who has been hanging out in the desert with us these last couple weeks is a weaver. She does beautiful things and sells them at rendezvous. I thought shooting a photo of her from behind and working her loom, would be perfect. This tells the story of who she is, and what she does.
YOU BOTH are so talented, it’s mind-boggling. Mary, AL is a master!
I am always in awe of your ability to capture the art in nature with such grace — and now, I’m in awe of Al’s ability to capture the same!
I think Al is probably one of the best bird sculptors out there, so thanks.
What a wonderful treat to see Al’s sculpture and your photo captures of nature! Thank you so much for sharing, Mary! :)
Thanks so much. I love sharing his work whenever I can.
I love ravens – Al’s sculptures are fantastic!
Thanks, he does a great job with bird sculptures.
My goal is to someday be able to afford one of Al’s sculptures, they’re magnificent.
Your comment came on an interesting day. We are just talking about allowing people to make payments on sculptures to make the art available to more people. In general, what would you think of that idea?
I think that might encourage more people to buy a piece knowing that they don’t have to make a larger outlay all at once. As long as you can be sure they’ll keep up their payments! ;)
Al makes amazing sculptures! I love both ravens!
Those scultures are amazing. So life-like. Rita hates ravens. That sculture is so life-like, she’d probably bark at it. :)
The sculptures are absolutely amazing! You two are just the most amazing, creative artists!! LOVE all of the work you guys do…
Ah, ravens! Love them and having just discovered your blog, love it, too.
Those sculptures are wonderful, they really capture the personality of the birds.
We have crows/ravens (I’m not sure which) around our house. The dang things are as big as chickens and very noisy. :-) I think I like the sculpture crows better. LOL
Al’s sculptures are so amazing and life-like. I love how you put that one up in the sky…what a great idea.
I also think you captured the theme for the Dogwood52 Challenge perfectly.