This post has been long in coming. When I started this blog I said I would be posting once a week, and I did for a while. Once summer hit, I kind of dropped the ball. Well now that the school year has started again and I have more structure in my life I am resolving once again to post every week.
Because you haven’t heard from me in a while this post will basically be catching you up on what I did all summer long, so hear it goes,
Since my last post on June 22nd I…
Went and stayed in a cabin in Island Park and toured Yellowstone with my family. While we were there I got to do some sculpting. It was fun to have the whole family sculpting with me…
   


Finished this sculpture…

 
Spent a lot of time with my family. Here is one of my little girls when we were playing with color mixing…

 
Finished a set of relief versions of my sculptures Shelter and Lotus. These will be available on my website soon.

It got a little hot in my studio and my sculpture With no thought of failure started to melt. I still need to fix it. I will be molding and casting this sculpture shortly.
 

 
Made many molds for my sculptures…
 

 
Sold my work at the Jackson Hole Art Fair. Here is a picture of me just after setting up my booth.

 
 
I went on a backpacking trip in the Sawtooth Mountains with a bunch of boy scouts. This is a picture of me with a friend from high school who I just happened to run into on the trail. What a small world.
 
 

 
 
I made some Awesome Pizza. It not only looks amazing but it also tastes amazing!

 
I started teaching school again. Here is a picture of me and my 1st grader on our first day back, walking to school in the morning.

 
I started sculpting a sculpture of a little girl praying. I am using my 8 year old daughter as the model. It is currently life size but will shrink a little as the clay dries.

And finally I began work on a larger than life size bust of John F. Shelley, the founder of Shelley Idaho.

There is many more things that I did but way to much to share in one blog post. This will have to do for now.
There are some people who have been asking whatever happened to the commission in Meridian Idaho which I was a finalist for. Well… I didn’t get it. Yes it hurt but such is the life of an artist. If I couldn’t handle rejection I wouldn’t still be doing this and I would have never gotten as far as I have. This rejection hurt a little more than usual because it was in my home town and I really felt like this project was made for me, but there will be other opportunities.