Pencil Portrait Art, Sharing Experiences The best way to learn is hands on and watching how its done.
Other hobbies of mine.. Severe Storm Photography, Electronics, Computers, Guitar.
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Music
Rock, Pop, Bluegrass, Native American or just about any good guitar music, and a wide variety of other Genre, If its Good, I like to listen to all kinds of music reguardless of the Genre.
Movies
Thunderheart, Last of the Dogmen, Last of the Mohicans, Dances with Wolves,Incident at Oglala, Matrix Trilogy, Contact, Twister, Conspiracy Theory... and many others.
Television
I dont watch much TV But when I do its usually CSI,Military Weapons,Mythbusters,American Choppers etc.
Id Rather be Drawing... Like this one;
My Drawing called "Native America" based on an 1899 version of a Blackfoot Camp after Sunset
Books
Fav Book is the Bible, other than that I do the majority of my reading online... Researching subjects, Art, Music, Genealogy, Science etc.
Heroes
Heroes are Too Few and Far Between, In my opinion the term is overused today, winning a baseball or football game is ok, but a true Hero Is - Someone who gives their life for another, People who stand up for ones who can't speak for themselves ranks high in my list, Some of the Subjects I draw are Heroes in the true sense of the word, others are only interesting subjects, I leave it up to you to interpret which ones are which..
Grand River Technical School
Chillicothe, MO
Graduated: 1981
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: Electronics
Clubs: Fmr School Name - Chillicothe Area Vocational Technical School
1979 to 1981
Bob in your extended network Posted at 1:32 PM Mar 21, 2008 view more
I'm Also known as Stonecutter, I am Happily Married for almost 27 yrs now. I am a Self Taught Artist, with no formal Art Education past High School. I specialize in Portraits of The 1st Americans. ..
In Trade School & College I studied Electronics. I am a former Building Contractor, Electrician, Electronics Technician.
I am into researching my Genealogy. I am Told that I cannot officially claim Native American Ancestry due to a lack of paperwork. I am NOT Currently registered with a Tribe. Although My Grandmother who grew up in an Orphanage told me her Mother was a Cherokee Indian, Other Ancestry includes Austrian, Irish, British.
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My Art is dedicated to my Family. My goal as an Artist, To Improve My Skills, and Create work that displays the True Spirit of Each Subject.....
My Wife is Co-Founder of the Native America Day at MWSU, she is to be credited for getting me back into Art and also for Saving my life on more than one occasion.
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Some of my ArtWork -->
Melony - My Inspiration" ....
Recent ArtWork --> Ten Bears by Bob Schmidt
Who I'd like to meet:
Other Artists and Art Enthusiasts, People who just Like Art, any Decent people...
"WhispernThunder" is a eMagazine for Native American Heritage, their goal is to become a USA today for Native Americans on the WWW and Facebook, and for those who have or are just curious about Native American Heritage as told by Native Americans and their Families, they will be doing features on Current events, Historical Accounts and Traditional. My part is in helping to start the Magazine and contribute my take on Historical and Current Native American Portraits, One of my 1st pics will be Geronimo, they have also shown interest in several of my works like Leonard Peltier etc. I have always had an interest in learning more about my family's part in Cherokee and Creek Indian history. Whisper in the title refers to the past, Thunder refers to todays events we currently hear about. Anyone who is interested in Reading, or even Contributing articles etc can go to the main page at http://www.whispernthunder.org/
hey bob check out my latest mural this took me about three days to paint,,yeah i like it...hey keep up with the drawings...ur gettin better and better...like me gettin better at painting..its been awhile since i painted something..but now im workin on a new one again...yupp i'll show u when its done
Thank you for adding me! Your work is awesome! I am trying to grow my friends list with artists so that I can check out the art without going into the groups....for inspiration.
Add to My Profile | More Videos Check out this video.....American Indian Movement Veteran, Lenny Foster (dine') shares story of last days at Wounded Knee. Thanks for sharing this space with me. Robert
Happy Father's Day. I hope that you have a great day with your family. Your page is really cool. I love the evolution of that drawing. I have to check out your drawings again it looks like you posted some more. God Bless.
Hi uncle bob how are you and aunt melony doing? have not talked to you all in forever it seems like! lol...just wanted to say your page looks awesome!.....glad to know that i can still have contact with family online atleast
Wow... getting your friend request and checking out your pics was almost like revisiting my past. Let me explain briefly...
I used to be very active in A.I.M. (American Indian Movement) and trying to get Leonard Peltier freed. A few average people have heard about Wounded Knee, but couldn't tell you much about it. Hopefully with the HBO movie adaptation of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" that will change a bit. Even those that have heard of it rarely know what happened in the early 70's (just the massacre that has been conveniently omitted from MANY "history books"). Anyways, when I saw your pencil portrait of Leonard, I was very surprised!!!!! Not too many people know who he is. I'm really glad that you got in touch (friend requested me) and that you haven't stopped doing your art. It is really good!!!!!!! I love pencil portraits; that is my 1st love when it comes to artwork.
If you ever want to talk about art, Native Americans, etc... just send me a message anytime!!!!! I grew up mainly drawing Native Americans (and that was it); the mascot at my high school is an "Indian" which after I became involved with A.I.M. have tried to get changed. That probably won't happen, but then my school doesn't go overboard making "racist" actions and such like many of our national sports teams (Atlanta Braves and Florida Seminoles, as examples). Well, I've taken up enough of your time (for now anyways), so I'll leave you with an oil painting that I did almost 15 years ago; from looking at your work, you should like the subject. Keep creating amazing art!!!!! THANKS and BEST of luck to you!!!!! Chris
