Arts
has been dubbed "The Bob Ross of Drywall" and "The Mud Michelangelo," and is a man with an incredibly unique skill set: he sculpts elaborate and detailed landscapes in bas relief in drywall (using nothing more than kitchen utensils!), redefining the boundaries of interior design and home decor. As a drywall contractor, he puts his creativity to work designing, constructing, sculpting and finishing specialty features in shoreline homes and cottages. He prefers to use birds as his main subjects – blue heron, osprey and loons – but he also enjoys sculpting horses, wolves and dogs. In addition to the high end homes and business he decorates, Bernie has toured both the US and Canada doing demonstrations, teaching workshops and putting his incredibly unique talents on display. Bernie lived in Alberta for 23 years, and spent lots of quality time travelling with his family throughout British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Alaska. These beautiful surroundings are evident in all of the scenes and subjects he’s chosen for his sculptures. Bernie and his family live on Pigeon Lake, in Ontario, Canada. He takes his family on canoe trips every summer, and his pride and joy is a cedar strip canoe he built himself. We cover all kinds of ground in this episode including: • Sculpting with nothing more than common kitchen utensils • How lighting is WAY more important than sculpting for this type of art, and how light moving throughout the day changes the look and feel of a sculpture • Finding creative inspiration in nature, and the joys and freedom of being outdoors • The importance of money versus creativity • The surprise factor of being an overnight, viral sensation • The challenges involved with human portraits • Why this is such an easy and cheap artistic medium for people to get started in and experiment with • The challenge of managing a business with all your thoughts and efforts on concentrated on the artistic endeavor