Art of Metal Sculpture- Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwbtgh-JA98

North Bennington 14th anual sculpture show

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Blue Mountain Lake Museum – “The Guide”

Blue Mountain Lake Museum – “The Guide”

Gordon the Guide sculpture has just been completed. The sculpture was designed and made especially for the Blue Mountain Lake Museum, to capture Adirondack history and the relationship between the wilderness and a guide’s life. The Guide boat’s important characteristics are highlighted as are the Guide, Gordon’s.

 The sculpture stands 12’ tall 15’ long and 5’ wide made with re-thought metal, colored in translucent paint and finished with clear.
Photos By: Jim Mc Laughlin 518-792-5175

"Gone 2 Seed"- sculpture

“Gone to Seed” is the sculpture finished and shown for the month of June. This sculpture is made of re-thought metal finished with translucent flip flop color (that dosnt show well in photos) and clear. It opened at a show with John Van Alstine, Gyula Varosy, David Bender, Noah Savett, called “Metal Works” put on by: Jessica Golden. The opening reception was outstanding and the sculpture sold. Detail picture shown below-

A little about the sculpture- The artist says she woke one morning and looked across the sculpture field to see dandelions all in seed sparkling in the harsh morning sun. In the moment she remembered the 3 large buckets of bolts that had been acquired, thinking that would make the perfect material for an extra large sculpture construction. She worked feverishly to the finishing stage at which point she felt translucent flip flop color and clear coat would truly capture the original morning motivation.

Sculpture made of large recycled metal bolts, oil tank, welded. Finished in translucent flip flop sliver/blue and clear.
-Sold
Photos By: Jim Mclaughlin Studio 518-792-5175

Koi Fish are Fun

Koi Fish- Commissioned functioning sculpture, mail box holder made with recycled materials and finished in color.

Sculptor to bring new life to old metal

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http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_b871664c-8b9c-11e0-b966-001cc4c002e0.html

Michelle Vara says she enjoys when a piece fights her to "get the conversation out." An artist for more than 35 years, Vara, of Ballard Road Art Studio in Wilton, says metal sculpting is not only her job, but her life.

  Grinding, cutting and pounding pieces into shape, she welds them together, working to express "a flow and dimension beyond words." The rigidity and resilience of the material is why she chooses the medium adding that once the metal is "concurred," it is soft and subtle enough to convey deep meaning to a variety of audiences.

Integrated into many of her sculptures are items with a history: A hammer used for years by a stone-mason friend who has passed on, an egg basket whose owner simply adored her chickens, a piece of keepsake glass saved for years and brought from one continent to another. Vara says she enjoys not only the hunt for the piece, but the story of the piece, and by integrating these items they lend "new life to a new project."

  Vara is constantly sketching ideas for projects. Her library contains more than 3,000 sketchbooks of concepts, some realized, many yet to come to fruition. She says her ideas never end because the world starts anew every day.

Julius the Moose Sculpture and Mailbox.

We went today to check on the moose sculpture I made in 2000 and he is induring time well. Although the snow plow hit the base, the sculpture its self is doing well having been installed on River Road in Fort Edward NY.