Thunder Puppy Art Bone Feather Jewelry

Art Promotion

2010-09-25T10:51:00.000-07:00

We are now in the beginning stages of forming a group of artists, galleries, printers, and advertisers to work together for mutual benefit.

The idea is to promote an artist, or group of artists, as well as galleries, printers, framers, etc. by pooling the resources of all the parties in order to keep the advertising costs low and to work with advertisers to promote the specific media and styles the parities specialize in.

We would welcome any and all ideas, input, and connections from interested parties. Our original focus is in the Native American Art area for obvious reasons, but we want to open this up to ALL genres of the arts.

Please direct all replies and inquiries to our email at info@thunderpuppyartonline.com

Thanks!
Lonny Cloud
Thunder Puppy Art
Woodland Park, Colorado
USA

new Art Network Site

2009-07-22T20:03:00.000-07:00

Greetings all…

I recently received a mysterious invite to a new “social “networking site called Artaculous. After putting off visiting the site for a few days I took a look and was quite pleased to find a group of professional’s sharing their expertise.

I now have a profile page there that you all can visit at this address-http://artaculous.com/pg/profile/thunderpuppy

More importantly to me, it has allowed me to create the sites first “Native American Traditional Painting and Art” discussion and promotion group, which I am sure to post pieces of on this news page as well. I am sure you all know that I have always been inspired by the traditional classic Native artists starting with the Kiowa Five and I look forward to promoting the classic styles as well as the contemporary styles of our newest generation of Native Fine Artists.

I hope, as well, that sharing and educating others about our traditional artistic roots might stem off the glut of ticky-tacky, airy-fairy, non-native paintings of dark skinned Barbie dolls posed half naked with wolves that have recently become representative of “Native” paintings on the market. I do try to keep an open mind about all forms of art, but I must admit that this has become quite a pet peeve of mine in the past few years!

Perhaps most important of all, I am inspired to return to the creation of a new Native Arts and Culture Association project that seems to be so badly needed for us all (buyers and artists). I remain open to all your input regarding this project and welcome your comments here as well.

Until next time…

Lonny Cloud

The Original Bone Feather Jewelry

2009-06-29T10:24:00.000-07:00

The ORIGINAL Bone Feather Jewelry
by Lonny and Michelle Cloud and Family

The History of bone feather jewelry

Since the 1970’s, Lonny Cloud has worked with numerous artistic mediums including watercolors, acrylics, and oils on many different media to produce a wide variety of native art.
In the fall of 1986, while carving a bust from cottonwood, Lonny had the inspiration to make feathers from bone, a material he was familiar with. With the encouragement of some family members to spur him on, a new form of artwork was born in Drake, Colorado, near Estes Park on the Big Thompson River.

Buffalo, Elk, and Deer bone were the first materials used, and are continued to be used along with Beef and any other bone that is requested. Sterlinilver and 14K gold are used as findings, and precious minerals and gems such as turquoise and sapphires are incorporated to make the finest linof bone feather jewelry and art available.

The bone is also used to create multi media fine art pieces, and original paintings and giclee prints are
available as well.

Michelle joined Lonny in 1991 adding her own delicate detail and high quality standards to the mix. She has developed well over 100 new designs in the last 15 years. She also works in other mediums, does design work for other businesses, and is the co-founder of the Women of All Nations Spiritual Gathering foundation.

Lonny and Michelle’s children are all quite good artists in their own right, and have now joined the business as much as their schedules will allow. Many pieces available are a collaboration of the family, and they all look forward to all the new creations that the children are bringing to the venture.

Lonny is a registered member of the Lumbee Nation of North carolina and America
, and Michelle is a registerd member of the Pine Ridge Sioux (Oglala tribe)

Click her to visit us at Thunder Puppy Art Online