Reidar Finsrud have made this sculpture of Shetland Sheepdog
from the FCI/British Standard of the breed.
 
Reidar Finsrud is today counted by many as one of the worlds most versatile artists.
He works within the majority of thinkable formats and techniques. Painting, drawing, graphic and sculpturing.
He does lectures at many topics, and has held his own art school since 1975.
The web page http://www.galleri-finsrud.no is very interesting to visit.

We have followed Finsruds work with this sculpture for more than a year and it have been very interesting.
On the photo below the artist show how the Sheltie was created - the idea started in August 2011:

11.04.12: Her er Finsrud i sluttfasen på sitt arbeide i modelleringsleire.

 
01.07.12 og 11.07.12 viser hvordan Finsrud har arbeidet videre med å forberede laging av skjoldet som sees nedenfor.

 
31.07.12 Støpeformen er laget og den tidligere lagede sheltien i modellerings leire
settes inn i formen - før støping...

Bildet nedenfor viser den ferdige Shetland Sheepdog når Finsrud har lagt siste hånd på verket.

27.12.2012: Helge og jeg ga hverandre denne Shetland Sheepdog i Gullbryllups gave !

Stor takk til Reidar Finsrud som her igjen har vist sine kunstneriske evner -
han er en stor kunstner !