Drywall Art Sculpture
This video features Bernie Mitchell from www.drywallnation.com Bernie is an artist who takes a very unique approach towards his work using only drywall compounds to create wonderful works of art. Bernie started a simple form of relief in the early 1990s. In his profession as a drywall finisher, he was experimenting with raised panels on wall surfaces where natural light had a positive effect as a relief form. Then he began using items such as wheat and barley stalks to leave impressions in the wet joint compound, and his experience with large pictorial carvings in leather led him to applying the same ideas as wall relief. Today, Bernie is a drywall contractor and he puts his creativity to work designing, constructing, sculpting and finishing specialty features in shoreline homes and cottages. He prefers to use birds as his main subjects � blue heron, osprey and loons � but he also enjoys sculpting horses, wolves and dogs. This website was established so Bernie could teach...