Art Tools: 2012

Bob Burdette outside by the shed

A warning to all that enter

Today I thought I would talk about a Artist that I was lucky to meet last year. This is Bob Burdette and boy does he love tools. Last year I was accepted to a professional development program for artist that was in the spring of 2011. The program was put on by Artist inc. and sponsored by the Kansas Art Commission and the Ford Foundation. Artist Inc. is a very helpful program for artists that helps them market their art and run things like a business would. In the class I met many artists and one of the best was Bob Burdette. Bob is a wonderful artist that works with whatever he's in the mood for which means he works with all kinds of materials and tools everyday. Now there aren't very many Artist's that have more tools then me, but Bob has so many wonderful tools and he really knows how to use them. I have put up just a handful of his tools today and hopefully Bob will start posting on this blog about some more of his tools and what he does with them. I also put up some pics of the Pandas he carves out of wood and when I say wood I actually mean logs. Bob went to the Memphis College Of Art and has shown his work at some wonderful galleries all across the country. Now I am really not a wonderful writer so I am sure I am missing info and not really doing Bob justice. I was lucky to meet him and I'm also lucky to have become friends with him over the last year and if we are lucky he will start write on the blog about his tools. Just over the last few months Bob and I have been doing art fairs together and I think that the booth that we share is a good mix of the both of us and I have really enjoyed working these fairs with him. The fact is nobody knows bobs tools like he does so maybe he will tell us in his own words about them. Below are some pics of his tools and some of the work he has made with them. Bob does work in many different mediums so there is no telling what he will be working on on any given day.