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••••• Ness-Savageau’s bison features an impressionistic landscape.••••• I was born in Minot North Dakota and moved to Fargo when I was very young. I have lived in Fargo since. I began painting and drawing when I was very young and took all of the classes that I could. I started college at North Dakota State University, later transferring over to Moorhead State. I graduated with my Bachelors Degree in art education and an art history minor. I have always loved art and have enjoyed experimenting with many different mediums. Among those that I enjoy are drawing, painting in oils and acrylics, printmaking, ceramics, and photography. Teaching gives me the opportunity to share what I love to do with others. I have been teaching classes for over twelve years in many different programs in the FM area. I learned of this project through friends and coworkers and became interested in participating. I was very excited at the chance to do something of this scale and community involvement. I had many ideas for the bison and it was difficult to finally choose one to submit. After sharing them woth students, friends, and family I finally was able to settle on one. When I received the bison it was larger than I thought it would be, but fortunately very light. We were able to carry up to my studio space and fit it through the doorway. Of course we did have to take the door off of its hinges first. The theme that I chose was North Dakota landscape with prairie on one side and badlands on the other. I wanted to keep the head of the bison painted as a white bison. I found it needed some other texture to it so I added plaster gauze to the head to create the appearance of fur. I kept the head the only part painted like a bison with the rest painted as landscape. I painted using an impressionistic style, thick paint and bright, vivid colors. I used a rubbing of gold paint over the head of the bison to mute the colors and blend it into the landscape. The horns of the bison head were painted in gold as well. I had intented to do the hooves in gold, but did not care for the look of them and felt they did not fit well with the rest of the leg and landscape painting. I was amazed at how the painting and process grew the more I worked on it and the more I worked on it the more it changed. I also did not expect to put in as much time as I actually did. I had everything carefully timed out and still ended up putting more and more time into it as it went along. Over all I am very happy with the way it went and hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did.
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