By Kevin Jenkins
Where Is His Art?
Most of my large three-dimensional fish are hung in residences. With the advent of cathedral ceilings in most homes today, this seems to be the most popular place and just imagine Snapper or an eight foot Blue Fin Tuna hanging from your ceiling or how
A Maryland Stripper in Ft. Myers ?
The question was once asked, Is it OK to have a Maryland Stripper in my home in Ft. Myers? I thought to myself, why not? If you like the stripper, then go for it! The topic comes up often whether or not it would look
Purple Tail Fish & A Lawyer
So many people that buy artwork generally don’t think about copyrights that the artist may have on a particular piece of work. At art shows attendees might not think twice about taking photo’s of the artist work. Some artist will say no photo’s please, others
There’s A Banana Tree In Her Kitchen!
Several years ago I got a call from someone who had purchased a sculpture from me in the past. She said “I have a friend that needs some help with a pole in her kitchen” could you drive down and look at it. Now at
A Lucky Artist & Snippety Lifestyle
Living in Homosassa, FL is very laid back. When you move here, you decide that there is not more room for the snippety rat race. The closest I get to snippety these days is using my aviation snips. I love the sound of them gliding
Coffee, Fans & Hammers
I’m really a creature of habit in many ways. I like to be at “work” in the studio by 7am but most days I go down the street to the river to check it out and have a cup of coffee at the bait house.
Can This Copper Sculpture Go Outside?
Quite a few people want to know if a Copper Sculpture can be put outside while considering one for their home or business. I get this question a lot, especially at art shows where I’ll speak with several hundred folks. If its a half fish
Which Direction is it coming from?
Weathervanes are something I really like doing. They can be whimsical or stylized reality and have a use other than just looking good. I take a lot of time in creating one of these Copper Sculptures and there is a fair amount of engineering in
A great hammer
One of the interesting things about using your hands in your work is your hand tools. When being taught my Copper Sculpture trade, I learned to make my hammers, and I still do. It’s just a matter of necessity to make a hammer with a
Art Shows
The first art show I went to was typical of me then, sometime mid 1973. I had just come back to St. Petersburg Fl. my hometown from Mexico and got a call from someone I had met while at the Los Castillo in Taxco Mexico
My Studio in southern norway
In 1994 my cousin came up from St. Pete. with a friend from Sogne Norway. I was still in the divorce to my first wife but had custody and Ernst asked me “Heh you should come to Norway” well I said ok and sent off
Scallop season
This is a Scallop Sconce that I enjoy making along with several other seashells in my collection. These sconces are two parts, one is the scallop itself the other is the light bulb assembly. Just imagine each copper Scallop meticulously hammered by hand. As a
The QUEST And how to stay alive
We all have said ” I am going to do BLANK somehow someway” , right ? Well I had heard of a town in old Mexico that everybody worked copper. Its not that unusual as in many towns in Mexico they specialize in one particular
staying alive, corrupt mexico
So before we left Santa Clara Del Cobre we had walked most of the town. We just got to see so much copper work. What was interesting was that in addition to different tools I saw in each, what was the same was a particular
more than skin deep
All week I’ve been working on several projects as I’m trying to get caught up before I have neck surgery in a week or so. So sitting at my bench and anvil working gives you a certain amount of thinking time. Mostly I’m thinking of
Japanese Temple Bell
Bell mold in fiberglass … Continue readingJapanese Temple Bell