Lounging Bear

The final carving of 2016

Soapstone from the Wenatchee area of Washington state

Mt. Adams from Toppenish

Mt. Adams from Yakima Valley (oil) 32x48
Painted for the Best Western Motel in Sunnyside, WA

The Alaska Range

The Alaska Range looking south from Delta Junction, Alaska

painted in 1985 (oil) limited prints available

A typical late September day

Tanana River (oil) 24x36

Mt. Rainier 2016

Mt. Rainier

From Box Canyon

11x14 (oil)

Klemtu, British Columbia

Klemtu, British Columbia

18x24 (oil)

We stopped here a couple of times in our travels between

 Alaska and Seattle.  This was about May of 1997 while we lived aboard

this "Apologetica" a 47' Skookum ketch.

Carving soapstone on board at Sitka, Alaska

Early Portraits

Portrait of Bill Roberts (oil) about 1978

Lucy Frank 16x20 oil

Peggy standing by two portraits done for

 the Pump House restaurant in Fairbanks

An 8x10 oil of Peggy 1973 while he

 was still in the Air Force.

This oil of a woman and her son with their dog is one

of the earliest portraits 1974

Pencil drawing of Steve Black and Dale Brown 1978

Self Portrait 1982 (oil)

The Process

Ebony Pencil

Dale and Peggy Skiing (oil)

chalk

Ancient Elephant Ivory

This model of the ice Cutter Bear commissioned by the late Mel Quakenbush

of Fairbanks, Alaska was constructed mostly of mammoth or mastodon ivory.  

The planks above the waterline are walrus ivory and the masts and booms

 are whale bone.  The black cap rail and anchors are made from baleen 

from the mouth of a whale.  It is mounted on a slab of jade from 

the Kobuk mountains in northwestern Alaska.  It measures about 20 inches

 long.  This famous ship built in Scotland (1874) was used for seal hunting

 but the U.S. government bought it to rescue the Greely Expedition which

 was  stranded without supplies in the arctic.  Mr. Quakenbush brought 

Dale Brown blueprints from the Smithsonian as a guide in about 1981.

This is a piece of ivory from a Mastodon tusk found in Alaska.

 The artwork was scrimshawed by Dale 1998
The bears are made of Alaskan soapstone

This piece about four inches tall was on a piece of 

Mastodon ivory as well.  Many large pieces like

 the one below are found every summer in Alaska by 

miners and earth-moving projects for road construction etc.

Dale Brown carved a prehistoric scene on this large

Mammoth tusk in about 1982 for Mel Quakenbush of Fairbanks.

The scrimshawed piece below was done on either Mastodon

or Woolly Mammoth in 1981.  Scientists claim both species disappeared about

10,000 years ago, yet there are cave drawings of them proving that

 man existed during that time.  The difference between the two can

 be seen in their teeth.  Mastodon had teeth more designed for

wooded areas whereas the Woolly Mammoth had teeth used

more for grazing like in open plains.

  http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/france/rouffignac/index.php

The difference between walrus ivory and elephant is easily identified.  Elephants, both ancient and modern, have a herring bone pattern that can be seen in a cross cut section.  Walrus like the lower piece in this picture has no such pattern.