Top section of Crusader being carved in the studio at the brick plant

Spent a lot of time at school. This CRUSADER LOGO for the Kapuan Mt. Carmel High School, Wichita, KS was carved at Cloud Ceramics, Concordia, KS.

The brick around the edges of the mural were cut away and the wall brick were toothed to the Crusader image to make it appear as though it is coming out of the wall.

River City Bank, Louisville, KY

Trying for a bit of catch up on some favorite projects: here the River City Bank, Louisville,KY

River City Bank: a chilly day to make a deposit

Kentucky Derby panel, even picked the #4 winner before the race! Should have put some money on it...

River Boat Logo makes an elegant entryway

Three brick murals: Kentucky Derby, Hot Air Balloons and Banjo, Louisville Riverscape with City and Riverboat Dock

Bank owner, Allison Willoughby, contacted me to do this carving for the new bank in 2010. After much research, they selected Belden Brick in Sugarcreek, OH. Each  panel is 8'w x 12'4". The contrasting color sets off the murals and high lights the ornamental trim.

Brick in Summer

Well, I'm home on hiatus until next week when I start cutting a batch of special shaped doglegs and chunks of brick last described as mystical geometric forms in Plato's studies. Just trying to make some CA outdoor  pizza ovens cohesive in color. They could have sawed up the angles, but then the exposed insides of the brick are pink and the brick skin open to weather intrusion.

Meanwhile, I groom my bamboo garden and enjoy a latte with my cat in the back yard. I saiid, in the back yard...are you coming? Give me a hand. Yeah, it's a big carved brick.

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Windy Hills

Mike Skelton at Windy Hills, Louisville, KY sent me these shots of their three new city signs this morning. Nice shots with the landscaping in place. The larger carving with two historic homes featured is 5' x 12', the other two are each 4' x 9' each. 
I completed the carving phase in the Fall of 2011 at Cloud Ceramics, Concordia, KS. My partner in art, Kris King, supervised the installation last Fall while I was carving through the schedule conundrum on another project. 

Lights Up

No, it's not a recent sighting, if that's what you were thinking. In the ground lights are a good solution to show off the murals in the evening without folks tripping over them. The little LED knuckleheads inside can be moved around to spotlight the best angles on the art work. Available to high light flights of fancy until dawn!

Looking Around the Cato Teaching Discovery Monument

Dedication Wall on Founding/Teaching Monument
Dedicated to UNCC Notable Teachers

North Carolina Flag and NC State Seal
Signing on the Mec Dec Constitution, the USN Battleship North Carolina
College Student Sit-in at Wool worth's


Education: UNC College founder, Bonnie Cone
Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, One room schoolhouse 
Dorothy Counts, a notable teacher, helped desegregate Harding High

North Carolina: From Murphy in the West to Manteo in the East...the Blue Ridge Mountain Drive to Cape Hatteras. Flying Wright was invented here!

Commerce: Everything made or sold in North Carolina, and don't forget to gnaw down on the BBQ pork while you're there! Remember to grab a jar of those peach preserves!

Teaching: Around the globe studies
Notable North Carolina authors still in the paper printed versions
At the blackboard: Solve the area of the monument face!

Gold: Mining in the Charlotte area

Yep, you can still try for nuggets downtown

         Charlotte Mint Bldg, Gold Scales,Tools of Mining and Minting

There's the Dig

Digging in clay is the best thing there is. Now it's a wall, a monument, a walkabout, a book cut in brick.