A couple of new life chapters have been written.  Most importantly, I have found my life-love, partner, and new wife, Tricia!  This means more inspiration, love and motivation.  I expect that this will be reflected in the quality an innovation of my workings.  Secondly, "Sacco's Primal Gallery" is now an official ABN registered business in the Great State of IDAHO, USA.

I am finishing up work on an heartfelt sculpture which was commissioned by a fabulous fan in the USA.  Soon after, I will be working to complete a seasonal collection by end of year from Colorado White Alabaster.

I plan on re-igniting the fires that burn within me, in order to visualize, shape and craft through stone for as long as possible. This outlet, as well as Facebook, Instagram, and ETSY will be my primary channels for communication regarding commissioned work and sales.

Stay well and Keep happy!
brian

The spring of 2016 is almost upon us!  I am very excited to have just received a shipment of alabaster from Colorado Alabaster Supply.  This is the first time that I will be working with Colorado Alabaster. 

Hopefully, it will be a great experience and will yield some excellent works!

One of my most-recent undertakings is shown here (to the left).  It is an impressionistic version of a white parrot. I look forward to hearing feedback from all of you as things progress.  There is a good chance that I will be showing and selling some of the sculptures during the upcoming Coeur d'Alene street fair at the beginning of August.  Also, I am working to prepare for an upcoming show. I am expecting that a show will be most-likely to be in the fall of this year.


Thanks to all of you for your continued support and motivating comments!


-brian

It's a new year and a new location!

It is 2014 and the sun is beginning to shine here at my new home in the lovely state of Idaho!  I am preparing for a productive year of sculpture work inspired by the awesome natural surroundings of the Pacific Northwest. Coeur D' Alene is a great place.  I encourage you to come and experience it at some point in your life!

I welcome you to Sacco's Primal Gallery on Facebook at the following address:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saccos-Primal-Gallery/267196913323605

Photos from a recent event

Relaxing now after a huge success at a recent event. Many great people, wonderful insight and awesome feedback - a humble thanks to all!

Back At It! (No photo for this post)

Thanks to my fans out there. No fear, winter is about to be kaput!
The next couple of days this week are to be over the 50 mark with 70s by Friday!


I am going to be finishing up on the rough work on about 10 sculptures. Hopefully, a show in May will materialize. The common theme for the show will be outdoor garden sculptures in primal and rustic fashion. The majority of the final work will be done, and photos available online by late April.

Later on in summer, I'll be spending some more time on another show with a heavy Egyptian influence. Also, another goal is to finish some nice gargoyles and angels.

Keep the emails coming - The comments and suggestions are great!

brian

Today, Sunday July 18th is a nice hot and sunny day. I put the finishing touches on another of the monolithic-styled heads today.

This one was started a year ago and has taken "back seat" in priority until today! This is another which will be sold at an upcoming garden sculpture show.

The "Moonface" is one of my favorite forms... This one will also be sold in the upcoming garden sculpture show (TBA).

If you thought "Easter Island", then I say "you are right on target!"

This monolithic original design was an attempt to exercise my mind in abstract aesthetics. My favorite feature is the top brow line and its impact on the light cast upon the face.

This sculpture will be one of the featured in an upcoming garden sculpture show (TBA).

"Galagahm the Baboon"

From a nice, chalky piece of core, white limestone, the inspiration for this sculpture is the savage nature of the Baboon. At some point, I hope to mount this onto a body stone for this beast. This will depend on my finding a suitable rock for it!

This is the "Mon-on-Ghealia Gargoyle" just following the first application of wax. I am quite pleased with how this is progressing. There will be a bit of facial expression detail to complete...

One funny thing worth mentioning is that this is my first ever attempt at a gargoyle - and gave me so many more ideas for the next and next and... well, you get the idea.

The next Gargoyle will be from a larger base stone and will take the more traditional form.

Moving further along now (about 12 hrs of effort thus far) you can begin to see the transformation from the planar to the third dimension.

The difficulty now is keeping aware of "cross-cut" fractures which can occur when removing deep portions of stone. This particular stone is white limestone (likely from Indiana, USA) and is quite prone to easily fracture without changing the "ring" of the stone. This is quite deceptive and must be dealt with by keeping precise and sharp chisel blows without allowing too much surface area stress.

My eventual goal for the "feet" is to detail in a set of humanistic features fashioned to appear more as hands. The next step in progression is to bring about overall depth contrast by lowering the would-be chest cavity and allowing the knees, feet and middle of the face to stand out. This will then give me the perspective for bringing the inner portions of the wings way inward - giving a stretched 3D space.

Every sculpture starts off the same way in which it is finished - "very sloooowly". You can see in this photo that the painstaking removal process has begun. I often relate this to an archeologist removing centuries of debris from their subject forms with the excitement of revelation!

One noteworthy topic here is stone size. Traditional stone sculpture (sans machines) is most difficult when the stone is smaller. The lack of "real estate" leaves the sculptor with very little room for error. Also this presents a challenge with perspective in that often there must be intentional optical illusions planned to adjust for depth and light contrast.

This year has started out a bit slow due to the crazy weather fluctuations and general "business" of being busy...

Gargoyles are an art topic which have peeked my curiosity as of late. In turn, I have decided to sculpt a couple for an upcoming garden sculpture show (date TBA).

Unlike my normal process of sculpting, this time I decided to sketch out the scene - if you will!

Taking advantage of the PERFECT snow conditions for snow sculpture. This time, I decided to go "big" and and undertaking "Snowceratops" which is unofficially 6'5 and over 20 feet long.

I imagine that the total weight of this one is about 2 tons. Still some cold night work to do and maybe I will add some color! Stay tuned for more of this one :)

Egyptian Relief Plate

After an exhaustive 24 hours of work over this past
weekend, the latest sculpture is almost finished. The motivation for this piece was my former pet named Daisy - an African Basenji. Atop the relief shows her profile as a young pup and the bottom portions symbolize her "night-and-day" personality.

A little tailoring and detail work is still needed followed by a wax finish coat. This should be market-ready in about a week...

This is a photograph of some of my more recent workings. From left to right the third and fifth pieces are now completed (Lionhead and Moonface). The other three are nearing completion but still amount to a couple of weeks of detail work.

I hope to make good progress over the next four days of what seems to be great upcoming weather!

Today should prove to be an excellent day for sculpting. Usually it is my experience that the "hotter the better" when it comes to working in stone. We are expecting a high in the 90 degree range, it should be perfect.

The photo in this entry shows some of the basic tools with which the transformation from stone takes place. I keep things pretty simple and use no power tools except for in sharpening chisels.

Once in a while a passer-by my home will stop and ask "What is that going to be... that thing that you are working on?", to which I'll reply "Oh... It will still be just a stone!".


I will end this entry with my thoughts for today:

At times, life can smell sweeter than it will ever taste...

Today's entry is one with no relevant photo, but instead a photograph that I took sometime ago.

This is the home that my family, back in the early 1980's built together mainly due to the engineering skills of my Father and the amazing capacity for everything else, which my Mother brought to the table!


I spent about 3 hours in an attempt to replicate a previous work of mine, but with an interesting twist. First, about the original piece :) - this was a "sphinx" type sculpture retaining the classic interpretation sans the scale. The difference in the second (this current) sculpture is that the inflection is more modern. In the current "influenced" version, the sphinx is atop a sphere. The intentional skew is the control that it exudes over the analogous Earth... Things are turning out well... much more to do!

Sculpted from pure white Carrara Marble, this angel has been in the works for about two years.

The hardness and constant spray of chards from the chisel allow me to have a greater appreciation for Michelangelo. This was his stone of choice.