12/22/10
I've been working on Christmas Gifts lately so there aren't alot of updates to this site for fear of giving away a gift or two. But after over a month of nothing new happening here I thought it's time to put something up. So if you're itching to see something new from Kulzer Design Studios, check out our Christmas note for family and friends: Click here.
11/10/10
People always ask what I want. Well, in Art Classes I want lots of good kids making good projects. In my life I want my own kids to be happy and love me despite my flaws. But if you're thinking material possessions, a list can be found by clicking here.
11/7/10
Just posted another picture of Mom's Portrait. The last time I worked on it was thursday, 11/4. I hate leaving a sculpt sit so long between work sessions but I had to do a little presentation at the Art Educator's of MN conference in Rochester this weekend. I got the opportunity to work with the Walker Art Center and develop a few lessons around their exhibition of Alec Soth's photographs. You can see the lessons I talked about on the LHS website, www.lhsart.org
10/28/10
Mom came in and sat next to her sculpture for a while yesterday. It's always necessary to have the subject of your portraits come in and do another sitting before the sculpture is finished. I could have sat there for hours just making little corrections with her posing for me. In the past I thought I could just work from pictures, but when I did Judy's portrait, I learned a valuable lesson. As she looked at the pictures I posted here she said her lips should be fuller. I plumped them up a bit but after delivering the finished sculpture and seeing her in real life again, I found that her lips were much fuller than what I had sculpted them. Check Mary's latest pic. at:
www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/mary/index.html
10/25/10
Every portrait goes through a point where I'm really not happy with it. I get frustrated that it's not looking like the sitter. I was going through that phase last week with Mom's portrait. But after working with it a little more today (maybe about an hour or so) I can honestly say I see a striking resemblance between my mom and the sculpture now. FINALLY! Check the pics at:
www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/mary/index.html
10/8/10
Started my Mom's portrait bust today. Check the pics at:
www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/mary/index.html
9/28/10
Here's the Official Announcement: My Solo show titled, "Timeless" is on display from yesterday until October 25, 2010 at the Ridgewater College Gallery in Hutchinson, MN. Click here:
www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/ridgegallery/ to see images of the gallery and some of the works.
This month I worked on two paintings to use in the show as well. Majesty and Earth are similar to the "Lent" painting I made this winter. You can see those paintings by clicking here:
www.kulzerdesign.com/art/paint/seasonal/index.html. I thought the gallery would be a little blah with bronze and white busts so the paintings on the wall add a little splash of color.
Drop me a line and let me know what you think.
9/17/10
I've been doing nothing artistic for a while now but thought I should add this year's homecoming banner to my site so I don't forget to do it later.
The thing that has been taking most of my time lately was the new church website. Check that out here: http://www.thechurchofstphilip.org/. Finally that entire site should be compliant with web standards.
And lastly, if you're in Hutchinson during the month of October, be sure to stop by the Ridgewater College gallery and see a collection of my portrait busts and a few paintings. The show will be open during normal business hours through the end of October. An Official announcement will come soon.
8/10/10
Last week the Meeker County fair had a Lego Contest sponsored by Litchfield Lumber Company. There were 3 age groups ranging from 5-adult. I couldn't resist making a model for the contest which you can see here. But Therese Theo and Drew also made some stuff too so check out this page:
www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/legocastle/index.html for the boys models. (Therese's was taken apart before I got pictures of it.)
Drew took first place in his age group in the "mobile" category. Theo took first in his age group for the "stationary" group. And since I was the only adult, I took first in the 18 plus category.
8/2/10
Even though I'm in the middle of redesigning our church website and should really be working on that right now, I took a little time to update my blog with the pillar I made for our house. (I can't let you loyal readers sit with nothing new to read for a month!) Made it out of clay sections with caulk between to allow for expansion/contraction with the heat and cool of our Minnesota weather.
If you click the image you will see the full pillar and a close up image.
7/16/10
Finally I get back here with a new post. The Camp Grafton Brick mural project is finally installed and finished. Click here (www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/brick/) to see the building and installation process.
It has been so hot and humid here in Minnesota! Thank God for air conditioning and swimming pools!
6/16/10
Sometimes I wonder why I do pottery. It's always alot of work. But it's fun to be able to make useful art. Remember when I mentioned a big bowl project on 5/26? Well, now you can see what I was talking about. Just added the Teacher Bowl project to this website. Take a look here:
www.kulzerdesign.com/art/pot/teacherbowls/index.html
6/13/10
The mural is getting close to completion now. It's 6 feet tall by 14 feet wide. I had serious misgivings about the project at the outset because of all the small detail that needed to be included and the difficulty of carving unfired brick. But thanks to Brad's expert skill and tenacity along with our other helper, Catie, we got through it with flying colors.
I have to brag that I got to sculpt every hand in the mural. Brad was kind enough to let me sculpt the faces on the large figures as well. (He redid the minuteman's face because of some necessary changes to the background and I must say it's a stronger figure because of it. Compare the pictures and you can see the difference.) Click here to see the progress.
5/31/10
I've got to be the luckiest guy in the world! This brick mural project is Brad's but he let me sculpt face and hand of the main figure this weekend! Along with the faces and hands of two other large figures! I've added lots more pictures to our Brick Mural project page. Click here to see the latest.
I'll say one thing about this project, It's a whole lot more fun than the last one. Which can still be seen here: www.lhsart.org/NewFiles/brick/index.html
5/26/10
Lots of projects going on at the same time here. I'm assisting Brad Bachmeier in carving a large brick mural for the Devil's Lake ND. Military base. Click here to take a look.
I've also nearly finished the Inquisitive sculpture too Check that out here: here.
A big bowl project is also in the works and I've finally completed our pillar... Curious??? Come back soon for pics of those projects.
5/9/10
I'm scratching that itch to work with clay again by doing a purely wasteful sculpture of a woman. Wasteful because it serves no purpose and has no buyer so I'm just wasting my time making it. Ohhhh, but it's so very fun to make something three-dimensional again! Click here to take a look.
4/21/10
I've been working on a short animation as an example for my Animation class at LHS. It's not done but this may be as far as it goes because I'm itching to work with clay again. Click here to take a look.
3/24/10
Just posted a new section called "Recent Additions". I keep adding new stuff to the site so I thought I better have an area where people can come to see the most recent stuff... Or stuff that's not so recent if they've happened to be too busy to visit the site every so often. Click here for that page.
3/22/10
My brother wants to sell his house so he asked if I could make up a website for him. If anyone wants a good deal, be sure to visit www.lesueurhome.com and make an offer before someone else snatches up this beautiful dwelling!
3/7/10
I've been working on a little house for my brother. He builds stuff in bottles and wants to try making small houses. If you click here, you can check out the details on a very large version of the picture.
This would have been an easy assignment if I could have just sculpted a house. The problem is that I had to make it in pieces that would fit into the bottle mouth. THAT was difficult! Check back for more pics the house in pieces.
3/1/10
Just posted a drawing I did a while ago.
Done at a time when I was still searching for the perfect woman who became my wife, Karen.
I also just learned how to make an image "blow up" on a webpage using Javascript. Click the image here to see how that works.
2/10/10
Judy's portrait, (www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/judy/index.html) is finished so recently I've been working on small painted clay wall hangings. You can see the two latest, "Love" and "Kiln Dance", here: www.kulzerdesign.com/art/paint/clay/index.html"
Kiln Dance was painted in a single evening and was made for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' "Foot in the Door" exhibition. Every 10 years they open a gallery for MN artists to submit ANYTHING they want as long as it fits in a 12 inch cube. I submitted "Welcome Home" 10 years ago but didn't have any small sculptures that weren't broken by our kids at one time or another this year. Thus the painting was entered. It really was a fun to get back into painting after such a long time sculpting.
1/20/10
I don't often show sculptures in the drying process because they look blotchy. But today I will. Check out the progress on Judy's Portrait Bust at this link: www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/judy/index.html. (Scroll to the bottom of that page for the latest picture.)
1/6/10
Finally a blog update. Christmas is always a busy time and the website gets neglected because I can't post the gifts that are being made or they won't be surprises anymore. Check out our Christmas project here. And as always check out the "New Work" section for our latest portrait of Judy.