Sculpture number 3: Serie Altarpiece "Fighting American Bisons"
These magnificent animals dominate the plains in which they are found.
Greetings dear friends of world of xpilar, I hope you are well. Today I bring you the third installment of my Altarpieces series, this time I sculpted some majestic animals that dominate the plains of North America, I am talking about the Bison.
About the bison I quote an important information from Wikipedia
The American bison (Bison bison) is a species of bison native to North America. Sometimes colloquially referred to as buffalo (a distinct clade of bovine), it is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the European bison. Its historical range, by 9000 BC, is described as the great bison belt, a tract of rich grassland that ran from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico, east to the Atlantic Seaboard (nearly to the Atlantic tidewater in some areas) as far north as New York, south to Georgia and, according to some sources, further south to Florida, with sightings in North Carolina near Buffalo Ford on the Catawba River as late as 1750.
This is another of the animals that I admire, despite having been one step away from extinction due to the massive hunting to which it was subjected during the conquest of the North American West, it managed to survive and its number is currently increasing.
Inspired by the fight that this animal has had to fight to survive over the years, I imagined this scene where, naturally, they face each other for the leadership of a herd or fight for the conquest of a couple, try to give them the best possible strength to this clash of titans.
This piece, follows the same technique as the previous one: Sculpture in white cedar wood, painted with enamel paint and covered with transparent varnish. I hope you like these new pieces that I am making and that form the series of "Altarpieces, next time we will change the element, I am sure you will like it, I say goodbye to you.
Luis Hernandez, wood sculptor - craftsman
since 1970 - 52 years of artistic career.