I have been lucky enough to spend a great deal of my adult life working on and around Burntside Lake near Ely Minnesota. I have seen many slow spring meltings of the last of the stubborn ice and the slow closing up again in the late fall of a lake that refuses to thaw or … Read more
Maybe it’s normal to start thinking about things like beaches this time of year, especially in a year like this where winter doesn’t seem to want to give up. But that probably has nothing to do with this. For some reason I just found myself working out some sketches of a child on the beach… … Read more
Last Thanksgiving weekend, (Thanksgiving of 2017), my wife and I made a trip to southern Louisiana to do a final cleaning out of her fathers house before the closing of the sale. We flew down to New Orleans, rented a car and drove to Houma. We had arranged for a Penske truck rental for the … Read more
A blog post from the Concepts website: Carved loon http://huismanconcepts.com/a-custom-cedar-entry-door-carved-loon/
This was an experiment, (they are all experiments), based on a photo taken by one of my sons of a young man who attended the same college. When I first saw the photo I don’t remember thinking there was anything particularly interesting but something kept drawing me back to it and, as sometimes happens, I … Read more
A couple pieces that I have currently hanging at the Eagan Community Center for the Eagan Art House show, “Zoom In” that runs through April, (I think). I stopped by there the other day to see them and snapped a few shots of the walls. ____________ ____________________ HuismanConcepts.com
This is a pencil drawing I thought I had finished a few years ago but it never really sat right with me. I finally pulled it out the other day and decided to work on it a little more. I think it is done now. It is a smaller drawing only measuring 11″ x 13″. … Read more
An interesting event and observation as I was heading down my road near Ely the other day. We had gotten about 10 inches of fluffy snow on the weekend and another 4″ that morning. A gray object plopped into the snow and I stopped to see what it was. He had no idea I was … Read more
This is another home we built quite a while back. I remember some beautiful summer days there. So much of the past 30 years or so has been spent building these wonderful homes on beautiful pieces of lake-shore property around the Ely area. Stonework here was done by Hearthside Corner in Ely and the steel … Read more
Sometimes I go through old sketch books and find things that I actually like. Much of the stuff I do as quick sketches ends up being nothing, gesture drawings, value sketches, things to throw away. I wish I had piles of sketch books laying around from over the years, that would mean I would be … Read more