Category: Sculpture

Here is a scene I did back in 2006 which is on permanent display in the Woolaroc Museum here in Oklahoma. It depicts a holdup at Prairie Dog Junction. I borrowed the idea for this one from a Charlie Russell painting I saw at the Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. Lots of detail here….

Some of you might recall that in back 1997 I was fortunate enough to have a similar carving of a gold miner featured on the cover of Chip Chats. I did this one a few years later. While this fella is standing in the creek instead of kneeling most of the other details are quite…

I had originally planned on having this carving as the main piece to a Rodeo scene but after a great deal of thought I let it go to a determined collector.  It was a fun piece, showing a lot of action and a challenge to mounting it securely.  If you look close you can see…

Too often we get stuck doing the same thing with our projects when just a little thought can take them to a new level.  I can’t remember just when this piece was done but I do remember that when it was first displayed it was scooped up before the show we were at even opened! …

I’m not sure I’ve ever published this photo.  It of a little convict chipping away at a walnut clock case.  I think it makes a nice little piece that would set comfortable on someone’s desk.  Hope you like him. Comments appreciated.

This is the first and largest scene I’ve done. It was completed back in 1997. As you can see in the associated photos there is a lot going on at the Gold Nugget. From Diamond Lil beckoning and newly arrived Cowboy to come up and test her brass bedsprings to the cheating cardshark reaching for…

One thing for sure….when the boys come riding in at daybreak after a hard night in the saddle and see the carbonized texture of these sinkers any atta-boys the cook managed to accumulate will quickly disappear!-I did this one back in ’02 and believe me it was fun not only in creating this scene it…

I think this bust of Buffalo Bill, created back in 2003, stands out from the others so I’ll devote a separate post for it. I completed it after a trip through Cody, Wyoming on our way to Yellowstone. If you’ve never been to Cody and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center that is located there you…

 I did this first carving of a Buffalo Soldier back in 1999 after seeing the movie “Sergeant Rutledge” which starred Woody Strode as 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge.  The Buffalo Soldier really makes a nice character to carve as they are so unique to our western expansion. With units of them stationed north of where we live…

I did this piece back in 2009. I’ve always had a fascination with the Buffalo Soldiers. You probably already know that they acquired that name from the Native Americans who associated their dark skin and woolly topknots to the animals that roamed the plains. Here is a where you can learn just about everything you…