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ODDEN'S WORLD
Forms My Art has Taken
Over the last 50 years my art has encompassed many areas of expression. They have included Painting, which included a motorcycle phase Ceramics, Drawing, Sculpture, Knife making  which got me interested in making tools. The local newspaper did a little story on me about the knife making.  I felt foolish and wanted them to do a article on J.B. Johnson from Clearwater , Mn,  he was gracious enough to spend time with me and show me a lot about making knives.  He is a real master  knife maker.  Well being the kind of person I am the interest in steel lead to getting interested in engraving.  Those are just some of the art mediums I have been involved in over the years. Other areas of interest has been landscaping our property. Turning it into a sculpture garden and the yard itself a organic sculpture. Which continues to grow as I have become more interested in using materials in their natural form, manipulating their arrangement.


 
 sculpture
My Grandmother on mom's side was a sweet old gal who lived into her 90's.  When she was a young gal around 1910 she collected romantic postcards and dreamed about her fantasy boyfriends.  That is what she told me.   She gave me her collection of postcards dating from 1909-10 Romantic Postcard Collection





sunsetpainting
"Small Hawk SparrowGang Red Sunset"  New painting,  hawks as large as they are are constantly chased away by groups of little sparrows that band together, much like groups of people do. 
Here are some more paintings   5 Chicks      Liquid Eyes    My Bone  
3 Steps to Burger King   Boy and His Bones   Daybreak 

The Minnesota Fantasy Review
'The Spectre'  pictured above is a eight foot high metal sculpture  comprised of thousands of old fashioned cement nails. Each bent and gas welded together into a open network of light and shadow. It was created over a period of several years. It was used as the model for the '"Minnesota Fantasy Award" . The award was given to Minnesota sci-fi or fantasy writers such as Gordon R. Dickson






This winter I made benches for 4 of my grandchildren.  I had previously made benches basing the designs on the old rosemalling techniques of the scandinavians, of whom I proudly claim heritage being 1/2 Danish & 1/2 Norwegian.   That was some time ago and now I used a more freeform  basis for the designs.  Here is a slide show

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Online or Downloadable Art Resources
  I have collected a bunch art resources these they include drawing, Animation programs and tutorials.  There are also a number of font, texture and pattern collections and image generators of various kinds.
My wife and I started our flower gardens 25 years ago. Actually I think the main waterfalls came first which naturally grew into building rock gardens and  waterfalls that have sculptures integrated into the Gardens
in the last few years the sculptures have  become into being by using natural materials as they exist , creating by controlling placement not by reshaping the materials      . Our latest endeavor has been to be smoke & tobacco free after 50 years of using Smoking & Me is about how we are doing  & reflections on the methods used by the pushers over the years. Having quite smoking for a while now I have ballooned up like Diego Rivera and started painting again.   Next project loose 100lbs






 


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