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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.

11/22/09
Yet another portrait is in progress. Check out the "New Work" section on my website or the direct link here. It's so FUN to see a likeness take shape!

10/29/09
When is it going to quit raining?!!!??? Makes for good weather to work inside on sculptures though. I finished another portrait yesterday and put up the latest pictures on our "New Work" section. After reading through this blog I realized I better provide the permanent links to these things because the New Work section is constantly in flux. Here's the latest portrait's direct address:
www.kulzerdesign.com/art/sculpt/banks/index.html

10/12/09
You can see another little update under the "New Work" section. Some decorative pumpkins my wife wanted. And I tossed an old cartoon drawing in the "illustration" section too.

10/09/09
Just updated the painting section with some rough painted banners that we do for school. They always end up in the garbage so it's nice to see a couple preserved through the magic of the web.

Click the image to see the long gone paintings.

9/21/09
Haven't completed a serious drawing for a long time. My former student-teacher did a shading lesson last fall using comic book heros that I thought would work nicely into my curriculum. So I'm teaching it now. (Thank you, Mrs. Tanttila!) The lesson can be seen here. And my drawing can be seen in our drop-down "New Work" section on our home page. (or here)

9/20/09
Finally got some painting images up. Now (Again, FINALLY) I have pictures in each section. No where near what I want yet, but I'll keep adding pics as I have time.

9/11/09
Had a minute to format a few pictures so you'll have to check out our pottery page. I've got about 16 more pictures to post, but that'll have to come after I do some illustration work that has been terribly neglected lately.

9/8/09
Notice the new logo in the right hand corner? I just had to spiff it up a bit. The other one was kinda blah. --Or was it elegantly simple? Compare the two here and let me know what you think.

I also want to say, for the record, that sick kids are not fun. And when you have 5, it's even more NOT fun.

9/1/09
We're on Facebook now! If you use Facebook click here and "befriend" me. I'll tell you the truth, I'm not focusing on the Facebook aspect of things here. I gotta focus on getting this site closer to complete first, but maybe Facebook can help me pull in some extra commissions. We'll see. I'm keeping track of my site statistics to see if it's any benefit.

8/29/09
I finally loaded my new website. Well, what I have done of it. There are so many more images I need to add and most of the pages are totally incomplete, but I'll get there eventually. For now please be patient while I continue to add new content. (and alot of old stuff as well.)

8/23/09
Another bit of work tonight. This site is so much work! I mean, big deal if you wan to put up a site with a few pages of text, but dang, this thing is enormous! If I decide to include everything, I'd have to upload over 500 images. Most of which need to be formatted to fit this site's design. AARGGHHH! Why do I do this to myself??? Crazy. Yeah, Crazy.

Actually, I want my site to be compliant with current web standards and to be able to utilize some new web features like my animated drop down "New Work" section on the home page. So a redesign is necessary. My old site is 5 years old now. ANCIENT in web terms.

Anyway, I should get to work if I want this to get done.

Still haven't decided what my banner should look like. Guess I should just start sketching and see what happens. Wish me luck.

8/19/09
I'm working on this new KDS site at this point. SOOOOOO much to do yet!