Brother Phil's Carvings

The Northern  Loon,  Bass Wood carving

This" Indian with a lance "is also a Bass Woodcarving This is a very famous painting, called"End Of The Trail".

Mountain Sheep

Lady And Dogs

This is a portrait I did for a mother's daughter, and her two dogs...can't remember their names, it's been awhile.

Martini

Martini is a Chihuahua, and she belongs to Vanessa, and this little dog will be 8 years old on Valentine's day. Notice the white shaped heart on her little forehead.

Brother August's Work

 These carved plaques speak for themselves,and ornate with flowers. Notice the Lady bug on the rose....

The crosses are symbol's of a belief held by many  people.

These candle holders are fabricated from laminations of different woods.

Phil's Art

More of my brother's art work....




 "Pointer" on cement block hallway of Apartment                                                                                                        

   "Light House" on living room wall,cement blocks                                                                          

Ruby Crested Humming bird on kitchen  wall

                                                                                                  

                                                                     

                                                                                             

                                                                                  

                                                                                              

Lab

Here I did a portrait of man's best friend...

More of August's Carvings

     August is one of my brothers, look for more of his handy-work " down the road "...                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                 
                                 
                                                                                                                                                           
APPLE for the teacher....

Deacons' bench for children......

                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                           
Children's Tea set,complete with table and four chairs.

Gone to Egypt

And where do Nativity figures go after Christmas? Usually into storage, naturally, but the Biblical story says Joseph and Mary ,fearful of a vengeful King Herod,fled into Egypt with the Christ Child. The lesson is recalled in this witty sign, "Gone to Egypt" by Rick Soehn.

Phil's Paintings

These are more of my brother, Phil's paintings, you know, the one from Chilliwack, B.C.

 Cassin's Finch                                                

Northern Cardinal                                                                          












Blue Jay

Shanna's Portrait

                                          Just black and white...on canvas.

Cousin Jamin

This is the photo Shanna did her painting from. Shanna and cousin, jamin are an "item".

Cousin's Portrait

Here we have the beginning of a full blown portrait  in  three  stages until  it reached completion.
         
               

Guardian Angel

This Angel is painted on canvas in Acrylics, a timely message we all can pay attention to...safe driving!

The Rose

                               My brother Phil's painting...a symbol of love.

Artist's Display

My brother,Phil who is retired now shows some    of his Art talent here.....these three paintings were done on cement block walls and cupboard doors in his apartment in Chilliwack, B.C.

Swallows

Humming Bird

                             



                             

Northern Flicker

Of all the beautiful birds of Alberta this is one of my favourites, and the Chickadee....

Happy bear carving

A happy bear with a salmon he caught. Another one of my brother August's carvings as is the carved chest.

Do you get the play on words?

If you are of German descent you may get the joke that this sign represents. It's another piece of carving from my brother August.

The Old Home Town Where I Grew Up

My 65 Chevy parked in front of my childhood home. Notice the dirt road.

We had running water by this time and we had power as well even natural gas. No telephone however. This all happened after the kids grew up and left for the wide wide world to seek their fortunes.

My Mother and Father. Dad was a Jack of all Trades and a Master of all. Trained in Germany. My Mother of course had her hands full with taking care of and feeding 9 kids. I have no idea how they managed through the Dirty Thirties but they did. 

And here I am today, no worse for ware a successful artist, graphic designer, sign painter and competitive archer. Now as you know, I spend a lot of time feeding and  watching my birds, rabbits and pussy cats!

My first bow. I managed to shoot a rattle snake on this day. The only other animal I shot was a rabbit and that cured me of ever shooting a living thing again. It was targets only forever more and I have the trophies to prove it.

More from brother August

The shop that my brother August works in is absolutely filled with shelves holding his past work. I keep telling him to create a blog or put his work on E bay because it would be an excellent way for him to earn extra income.

He seems to be too busy carving to get around to selling anything!!!

A Couple More

Simple and unique candle holders crafter by my brother August.

Another Brothers Work

I have 7 brothers and 1 sister. Almost all of us are artist's in one way or another. We used to say  we had a baseball team just among ourselves.

Enough trivia, the pictures you see here are just some of my brother August's carvings. He has done a lot more believe me.

These are just a sample, a toilet paper holder and two urns for ashes of the deceased.  All of his work is for sale and you will find more pieces later on.

Northern Flicker

Northern Flicker came visiting today. the first day we've had sunshine in over 2 weeks. I don't know who is happier about the sun's return, me or my feathered friend.

License Plate Art

I painted this "Vanity Plate" at the request of the owner of Buffalo Air, Joe McBryan  when he first started his company. The dollar bill is an actual copy of the actual "First Dollar" his company made.

The serial number is the actual one off the paper bill. One final note is that paper 1 dollar bills no longer exist in Canada. The Canadian Mint now produces only the Looney, a coin version of the currency once represented by the 1 Dollar Bill.

For those interested in Buffalo Air follow this link:

http://www.buffaloairways.com/ 

I also painted a replica of the license plate on the nose of his first aircraft, a WWII Vintage DC3 which is still a working part of the fleet.