Nigel Fox Artworks

My eagle/killer whale paddle is almost finished. I have a few more coats of red to go. The photo of where I am at with it is below. This paddle has been quite the project. I have received quite a few complements on it, and it is the best paddle I have ever done.

It was good to see Dean in class again today.  Dean is working on a series of carvings and a box right now.

Kelly Robertson and Dean Heron

Other than that, we went to the Terrace Art Gallery today and talked with the curator, who turned out to be quite the flamboyant fellow. I included a blurry photo of him below, adjusting his welsh dragon shadow theater-prop–and though you can’t see it, just imagine it :)…

Terrace Art Gallery Curator

I was looking forward to hearing Roy Henry Vickers talk in class today, but unfortunately with the amount of snow that we have been receiving, he was snowed in and couldn’t make it until next month.

There was a huge dump of snow over the weekend, and all over Terrace there are these piles of snow in the middle of the road where the plows just left it.  This is the second time this year that the plows have done this.  This year has been a record for snowfall I think.

It was good to be back in class today as I had a lot to catch up on.  I finished off the two-dimensional painting of my newest paddle design today and there have been a few positive comments already.

www.nigelfoxartworks.com has been upgraded. The website has a blog interface now, making it a lot easier to update. Expect to see more frequent updates, including what is going on in Freda Diesing School right now.

Below is an image of one of my most recent paintings, Blue Raven.  This painting was done as part of the final exercise in the first semester.  The exercise was on “crest” design.  A “crest” is a design representing some sort of animal or human.  Often crests indicate clan membership.  Within the Tsimshian tribe there are four crests: raven, eagle, wolf and killer whale.  Terrace, where Freda Diesing School is located, is on traditional Tsimshian land.

Blue Raven

Learned about cash flow in entrepreneur’s workshop today.

Finished preliminary paddle template design.

Preliminary Paddle Design on Template