In preparing a bunch of drawings for this month of Halloween sketches, I started thinking about Marc Davis' countless drawings of ghos...

A little while ago, I wrote an atypically cryptic blog post about the 1960's and sci-fi stuff like miniaturization and molecules and th...

The 1960's: a decade of unprecedented technological advancement. Despite the chaos of the times, American industry kept a hopeful eye...

Another Odosketch for you today. This one owes it's inspiration to the great Barker Bird replica created by Kevin Kidney and Jody Dail...

Wendell is one example of a final Animatronic figure (below) that I don't think matched the Marc Davis art very closely. The face match...

This was the first one where I really relied on the Marc Davis artwork. Even though Trixie is basically a big lump, the way her arms are po...

The second Country Bear I tried to sculpt was Henry, the host of the show. Like Big Al, I relied a bit more on photos than the Marc Davis a...

About 8 years ago I decided that I wanted to try sculpting the characters from the Country Bear Jamboree. How hard could that be? Mind you...

I took this picture a few weeks ago. I went over to Tom Sawyer Island to take some pictures before it began it's transformation into ...