Fair Grounds

Diabolical Bunny.

Alien Chihuahua.

Hipster Bug.

Wild, Wild Life at Harcourt House.

Ice Break.

Further evidence of global warming found in the Crownest Pass.

12 Point Buck Nicholas Sheran shoot.

Self Portrait with Bison Head

The first rule of Bear Fight Club ...

Museum of Miniature Bear Violence And Deer Leaping, Cardston, Alberta.

Buck You!

The Works, 2010.

GenderBlender opens June 13, 2-6 PM, 1424 - 23 Avenue NW.

A little somethin' somethin' for GenderBlender

Dancing Bear Short Short Story

Once upon a time, in a fantastic and magical land, a brown bear learned to dance. His reward was a collar and a leash. And the instant the collar was slipped over his head, all the whimsy and wonder in the land evaporated and was never seen or heard from again.

Image: A dancing bear performing in the United States, c. 1900, from the Hugh Mangum Archives.

Final sketch for Badger Boy

Portrait of Troy Nickle as Badger Boy.

While attending a recent Dr. Sketchy's event, Troy Nickle showed me a photograph he had taken of himself in his skivvies. While I instantly remarked that I thought he looked like Bobby Hill, my next thought was that I desperately wanted to transform the image into Badger Boy. It seems to be a logical progression from the idealised masculinity in the Buckheads to portray the flawed and vulnerable body given character by the addition of an animal head chosen to convey the specifics of the individual portrayed.

12 Point Buck: Wild Wild Life in Canadian Art's See It.

Canadian Art link.

With 12 Point Buck @ Nouveau Gallery, Regina

March 26 - April 17, 2010

Buckhead 2

Buckhead sketches

Weissmuller sketch
Buckhead 5
Buckhead 3
Buckhead 2, 1, and 5

I began working on the Buckhead series as drawings incorporating the same buck’s head. I’m an avid collector and spent months tracking down a myriad of buck, deer, and fawn stamps from across North America and England but always returned to this particular image as it best represents the model buck: majestic, stately, and proud. It was also a head begging for the addition of a body. I decided to explore this concept of the masculine ideal in the wilderness with the epitome of human masculinity: the classic Hollywood actor. The resulting mash-up, while both idiosyncratic and amusing, allows for a juxtaposition that further explores the constructed-ness of “nature” and it’s link to particular notions of beauty, rugged-ness, and virility. The plywood support for the paintings provides a literal foundation of manufactured rawness on which these nature/culture hybrids float.

Cariboo, Deer, Moose.

Head Hunter

NATURAL ARTIFICE: Elinor Whidden and 12 Point Buck. Dayna McLeod's essay in no more potlucks

http://nomorepotlucks.org/article/beast-no8/natural-artifice-elinor-whidden-and-12-point-buck

Natural Artifice @ Gallery 44

Link to catalogue essay by Dayna Mcleod:

Natural Artifice

Duck Toile

Deer Me