Commisioned Life Sized Grizzly Sculpture
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The wife leaving really knocked me for a loop... I've felt better from getting my ass stomped by two guys decades ago. Healed up quicker, too, and went back and finished that fight to my satisfaction. Anyway... wow... talk about a mind fuck. I got my wits back together now. Friday and today was the best days I've had since she left. Wed thru Thur I was physically weak and short of breath easily. But come Friday I felt like kick'n some ass and began slab roll'n some clay and painting melted clay over foamed areas where slabs will adhere to. Yesterday mowed a shit load of lawn we have, went to a bbq, had a great meal for a change and hit the rack early. Got up today and felt like slap'n slabs to that bear and modifying the face, nose and jaw set some. I'll slap more slabs to it tomorrow and start work'n on its ass, tail, and crotch.
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I wish you luck for the future Frank and I'm sure you'll work things out. That bear sure looks great, not the sorta thing that I'd like to meet out in the the bush here. The most dangerous bear we have in Australia is those damn Drop Bears 
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Keep busy Frank, it's about all you can do.
Bear is looking great. Are there places to see animal anatomy like all the human anatomy books they have? I wouldn't want to go to the woods to see what a bears crotch looks like.
Bear is looking great. Are there places to see animal anatomy like all the human anatomy books they have? I wouldn't want to go to the woods to see what a bears crotch looks like.
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Just a lot of hair, Jammer... A bear's penis and testicles are"inside" his body and the penis, itself, is actually made of bone. with membranes around it. He mounts the bitch, when it feels like he's in the sweet spot an inner muscle forces that sheathed bone out of his crotch and penetrates her. 3 second contact is all she gets. When he feels the warmth inside her on his dick it shoots. Then he's off fish'n and hunt'n again. LOL...
I've helped skin a lot of these critters in my life. I've also got some books on bears, too, though to keep me on tract... some are taxidermy books. I'm not trying to perfectly duplicate a bear's anatomy but make a work of art representing a bear. The key critical aspects the human perceives when they see a bear is: Attitude & posture (first and foremost); the head & mouth; front feet and claws; body mass (overwhelming size when they stand erect); and their genuine lack of care about anything goin on around them, or the rage and threat they pose when they stand and show dominance.
People think they're predominantly afraid of humans because so many wander off or RUN away when encountered. What they don't realize is that bears are 24/7 hunters as well as opportunists. When a bear comes in contact with humans nearby, if it's not track'n a potential kill it's after, it perceives the area "spooked" by the presence of another species that's hunting and will go elsewhere to find more virgin territory to hunt in. Bears are aware man has magical powers and is a formidable enemy. But, come up on a downed kill of theirs you best pull out the artillery and everything you have powerful at your disposal 'cause if that bear catch's you near it he'll add you to his plate. So long as their bellies are full they're as docile as a drop bear in Australia.
Get near a sow with cubs, however, that's an entirely different story. She'll seize every opportunity to kill something so her and her cubs won't have to hunt. Generally, the sow will detect a human's presence then will "pretend" to move her cubs along like it's a sunday stroll. She'll find a hollow of ground and make them stay put, then she'll backtrack, encircle your position to determine best approach to take you down.
Keep in mind, too, the "bear" species I'm refer'n to here is the Alaskan Brown Bear, Grizzly, and Kodiak Brown. Black bears are late evening/night & early morning hunters. If food supplies/trash, etc., are available they will plague your property till you clean up the place, or hunt them out of the area. Black bears are highly unpredictable, like a street gang of blacks, you never know what will trip their triggers. However, all Black bears have one common enemy and that's any sizable dog species... coyote, wolf, farm guard dogs, etc. If you encounter a black bear in low light where all you can see is mass, not detail, lower your posture and thump your feet trotting toward it growling and cut loose with as best bark as you can master and that sumbitch will clear brush and branches through the woods like a scalded ape. Funny as hell to watch. I've done it a time or two on blacks that tried to sneak up behind me and steal fish I've had lay'n on the riverbanks. Safety first though... never attempt to do that without at least a 357 mag or preferably no smaller than a .44 mag in hand loaded for bear at 2000 fps / 240 gr. soft point bullet. Helps, too, to know how to shoot it accurately, HAHAHA.
I've helped skin a lot of these critters in my life. I've also got some books on bears, too, though to keep me on tract... some are taxidermy books. I'm not trying to perfectly duplicate a bear's anatomy but make a work of art representing a bear. The key critical aspects the human perceives when they see a bear is: Attitude & posture (first and foremost); the head & mouth; front feet and claws; body mass (overwhelming size when they stand erect); and their genuine lack of care about anything goin on around them, or the rage and threat they pose when they stand and show dominance.
People think they're predominantly afraid of humans because so many wander off or RUN away when encountered. What they don't realize is that bears are 24/7 hunters as well as opportunists. When a bear comes in contact with humans nearby, if it's not track'n a potential kill it's after, it perceives the area "spooked" by the presence of another species that's hunting and will go elsewhere to find more virgin territory to hunt in. Bears are aware man has magical powers and is a formidable enemy. But, come up on a downed kill of theirs you best pull out the artillery and everything you have powerful at your disposal 'cause if that bear catch's you near it he'll add you to his plate. So long as their bellies are full they're as docile as a drop bear in Australia.
Get near a sow with cubs, however, that's an entirely different story. She'll seize every opportunity to kill something so her and her cubs won't have to hunt. Generally, the sow will detect a human's presence then will "pretend" to move her cubs along like it's a sunday stroll. She'll find a hollow of ground and make them stay put, then she'll backtrack, encircle your position to determine best approach to take you down.
Keep in mind, too, the "bear" species I'm refer'n to here is the Alaskan Brown Bear, Grizzly, and Kodiak Brown. Black bears are late evening/night & early morning hunters. If food supplies/trash, etc., are available they will plague your property till you clean up the place, or hunt them out of the area. Black bears are highly unpredictable, like a street gang of blacks, you never know what will trip their triggers. However, all Black bears have one common enemy and that's any sizable dog species... coyote, wolf, farm guard dogs, etc. If you encounter a black bear in low light where all you can see is mass, not detail, lower your posture and thump your feet trotting toward it growling and cut loose with as best bark as you can master and that sumbitch will clear brush and branches through the woods like a scalded ape. Funny as hell to watch. I've done it a time or two on blacks that tried to sneak up behind me and steal fish I've had lay'n on the riverbanks. Safety first though... never attempt to do that without at least a 357 mag or preferably no smaller than a .44 mag in hand loaded for bear at 2000 fps / 240 gr. soft point bullet. Helps, too, to know how to shoot it accurately, HAHAHA.
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Ok, 44 mag. I was going to say, What do you do if they stomp and growl back. I would throw them the fish and jump in the river. A lot of good info, well, maybe a little too much Info. 
Hey, drop bears aren't real! Had me going for a minute. Kind of the same story we get here in Tennessee, vicious snakes everywhere and will kill you for no reason. We've been here 3 years and have not seen one live venomous snake. There have been a few killed on the road that I think were copperheads. They are here somewhere but stay out of sight.
Hey, drop bears aren't real! Had me going for a minute. Kind of the same story we get here in Tennessee, vicious snakes everywhere and will kill you for no reason. We've been here 3 years and have not seen one live venomous snake. There have been a few killed on the road that I think were copperheads. They are here somewhere but stay out of sight.
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Here's yesterday's progress... mainly work'n on the head and face.
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You seem to be getting close to mold making time. How do you plan to proceed with that?
I forget all you said in your early posts. Are you going to cast him in bronze?
Richard
I forget all you said in your early posts. Are you going to cast him in bronze?
Richard
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That looks just magnificent
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Rasper wrote:You seem to be getting close to mold making time. How do you plan to proceed with that?
I forget all you said in your early posts. Are you going to cast him in bronze?
Richard
Yes, it's get'n close, Richard. But not too close... still some time yet to dial in what my vision keeps evolving into. Once it's ready, i'll order a kit from Polyteck to apply a 3/8" skin coat of laytex rubber over this entire body. I'll then apply a plaster mother mold around that in multiple sections to accommodate the crucible size I have to cast with. I'll separate the rubber at the parting lines where the mother mold sections join. I'll then paint the interior mold sections with molten wax to a thickness that'll accommodate the pour capability of my crucible. I'll, then, invest those wax sections into plaster & fiberglass for burnout. Then cast. Then comes the chore of assembling the body pieces of bronze cast together by welding to re-create this sculpture in metal. Then the chasing and final surfacing details and ultimate patina. Next year is a pretty good assessment of when this project might be completed. A bit longer, perhaps, given the nature of what's occurred in my life of late. That shit storm has yet to subside.
There is a possibility I might cast it in aluminum... maybe. The commissioner is preferring bronze. I totally agree and insisted it should be. However, he's got a LOT of sculpture on his property that's cast in powder coated aluminum out of Mexico. I really don't want to do it in aluminum, but it will be his eventual call. At least I'll have the mold to do another in bronze later if that happens.