Photo Series: Old Bovine Bone

When beginning an advanced drawing class in art school, the artist was issued a cow bone for the purpose of drawing, painting and sculpting this particular bone for the duration of the semester.

This bone was required to be with us while in class and many projects were assigned based on the bones the class had been given.

This bone has been the subject of many drawings, paintings and other various studies. The artist still has this old bovine bone.

“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”   ~ D.H. Lawrence

“Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . .”  ~ William Faulkner

“He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.”  ~ John Lennon

©1991 Old Bovine Bone Series Eric Well Hatheway All Rights Reserved