Foundry visit

I took a trip over to the foundry to check out the progress on several pieces they are doing for me. Looking good. Two of the pieces are being prepped for a patina, the other photos is of the "chasing" station.




You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart.
::: Gary Zukav :::

Regards, LJN

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

I had the opportunity to take some plaster casts of two of Saint-Gaudens coin designs. Ironically one of them is the 1907 coin which Mary Cunningham posed for. Unbelievably beautiful work by the master.

It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance,
purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is
disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish
to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair
which provides rest from physical expectation for the
spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.
::: Henri Matisse :::

Regards, LJN

January 2008

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand,
as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply
necessary to love."
::: Claude Monet :::

Happy New Year

O, once in each man's life, at least, good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
- Lewis J. Bates