(H021) Flamingo - Color Chart As you might suspect, I watch lots of nature shows and devour wildlife magazines.  One of my favorite birds is the flamingo of the Kalahari.  Visions of the scene in Out of Africa come to mind; their flight in his bi-plane over the flocks of flamingos with their wings outstretched.  Although there is no outward expression of those wings in my flamingo, I am so mindful of their power to transport this majestic bird long distances for food, for water, for their young.

(H022) Frog - Color Chart I'm watching a science program on time travel.   Appropriate for now as I write about my frogs.  I was just thinking about pollywogs.  I swam with some a few years ago in a lake full of large future frogs - each one in different stages of change.  For a bit I got the chance to enter their world; a kind of species travel, and in turn seeing all those different stages at one time was like time travel. The frog is tricky for me to hatch from one clay egg, but that's the fun, the challenge - to take this clay egg and literally pull an animal into being so all the lines of color can flow too - as the form flows.

(H023) Hermit Crab, Moon - Color Chart With all the empty "Guiltless Shells" floating around my studio, it's only natural that some hermit crabs would take up residence and find them to be an ideal abode.  It's fun for me to take a bit of colored clay and bring to life these creatures I used to capture. As with many of my sculptures, each hermit crab will have its own distinct personality and look.  This is one of the reasons I enjoy the art form I'm doing; being able to have original artwork that I can offer at a modest price.  This to me is a win-win situation.