Adamson Studio

03/11/2026

The Clash of the Carvers Invitational Chainsaw Carving Competition is Set for the 10th through the 13th of September 2025. See you there!!

12/10/2025

Plans are under way for the next Clash of The Carvers Invitational Chainsaw Carving Competition. The dates are September 10th - 13th, 2026. Pictured are Chelsea Mugford, Brent Lane, Eric Bunn, Jeff Forster, Micheal Colberg. Darren Short, and Ron Adamson.

09/01/2025

For those interested in learning to carve with a chainsaw. I'm working with "Kootenai Country International Chainsaw Carving show this week. The show runs Thursday till Sunday. September 4th -7th. My Classes are on Friday and Saturday. Notice the poster in this post. See you there!

10/21/2024

Sadly I have a RED Flag alert. My Book is missing. So do not buy it off of Amazon. It is possible you will be told the book is available. Some of the books where sent to Arizona. None to Montana. So If you've order books from me, I'll get them to you as soon as I can. But please do not purchase them from Amazon. Amazon has not been very helpful with this issue. Please Share this post.

10/20/2024

Thanks to all who came out for the Kootenai Pets for Life Bow Wow Bash Fundraiser.
And to those who worked so hard to make it happen! Thanks for allowing me to Auction again!

10/18/2024

Dear Friends, Family and Followers...
Due to technical issues in Winslow and my busy schedule since my return to Montana, I was unable to announce my Friends of Ron Adamson 25th Anniversary of the Standin' on the Corner Park Challenge until now...
I'm encouraging everyone to make a donation to the 501(c)3 non-profit Standin' on the Corner Foundation for $25 or whatever feels right for you. Send your check to:
Standin' on the Corner Foundation
PO Box 1074
Winslow, AZ 86047
(DO NOT SEND DONATIONS TO ME)
You can also go visit their website: standinonthecorner.org and buy a personalized 4x8 brick with your own 15 character inscription for $100 that becomes part of the park. Again this is to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Park.
To thank everyone who takes the challenge, I will donate a numbered and signed wooden wall plaque of Easy standing on the corner to one winner.
To be eligible for the drawing, take a photo of yourself holding your check and note on the check "Friends of Ron Adamson 25TH Anniversary Challenge" and post it in the comments section under this post, state "I took the challenge" and tell me what you did. If you bought a brick, please screenshot that you did and post it in the comments section with the phrase, "I took the challenge."
Names of those taking the challenge will be collected from the comments section, put in a bowl and one name will be randomly drawn for the wall plaque.
Let's raise some money to help the Standin' on the Corner Foundation maintain the park we all love!
The challenge is now through Dec. 31st and the winner of the wall plaque will be announced Jan. 1st 2025 to end the 25th anniversary year of the park on a good note.
Good luck!

09/10/2024

Good morning. A balmy 54F on the 10th day of September. The Chainsaw carving event is over. And time to move into finishing up some existing projects. Here's another back story to "THE ROAD TO WINSLOW: THE MAKING OF THE EASY STATUE.
My ducks and geese are gone, now the pheasants....
"The Pheasants now fully grown had been unscathed by the happenings outside of their pen. In their spring plumage, they had obviously reached adulthood and sure enough the hens started laying eggs.
I’d spent enough time with the rooster to get a decent sculpture study done and within a few weeks it would be ready for the molding process. There were a couple of boards I rigged up toward the top of the barn so the pheasants would fly around in the cage and take an occasional perch during the day. And it seemed to work out for them as the spot to roost for the night.
A bag of pheasant feed was placed in the barn next to the chicken wire door that opened the pen. Feeding and watering was in the morning. An old tin coffee can sufficed as a scoop, and I’d throw the pheasants the feed after checking the water. The pheasants, 2 hens and one rooster, never seemed at ease in the pen as chickens would. At feeding time they always seemed to panic when the pen door opened and they’d fly around and land up in the roost.
This particular morning after the pheasant whirl wind and landing on the roost, I noticed as the feed flew out of the coffee can, that a mouse was flying in the air with the feed. The mouse was quickly noticed by the pheasants and set off a frenzy. I had no idea that a mouse so tiny compared to the full-grown pheasants would cause any concern. Within seconds one of the hens had the mouse in her beak. The rooster and the other hen were in a contest as to which one could get the mouse out of the first hens’ beak. Within a minute the mouse had been devoured. This morning’s event was surprising to me to say the least. I promptly found a mouse trap and set it out in the barn. The following morning, a dead mouse was tossed into the pheasant pen. The result was the same, the pheasants fought each other over which one would have a mouse for breakfast. The pheasants ran around the pen, the rooster grabbed the mouse from the hen’s beak, within a second the other hen stole the mouse from the rooster and had the mouse for its morning meal.
It was time to make a trip to Kalispell, where two artists Glenn Swanson and Mark Ogle had a Gallery at the loading dock just off Main Street. Glenn, being one the best bird sculptors I’ve ever met, listening to my pheasant story, open a reference book on upland game birds. Sure enough, pheasants eat meat. It seemed Glenn was also surprised to learn that.
I had a clay sculpture with me. It was the head of a golden eagle. Glenn was kind enough to take a look at it and gave me some pointers on the eyes and beak. His experience and advice helped me complete an accurate sculpture. It was always nice to stop and visit with fellow artists, Mark and Glen always made me feel welcome.
Out of town again, and a phone call to Julie, the hens were dead. Julie informed me that something had dug under the chicken wire. The rooster was in full color and very useful as a subject for a sculpture. There had been a skunk in the area as the fumes would roll in on occasion and the skunk had found the pheasant pen.
“No, the skunk was not in the barn this morning when going to feed them.” Julie informed me. “Well, let him out of the pen, the skunk will return until it kills him too.”
The next day Julie let me know the pheasant had been released, but things did not go well. What? I’m thinking the pheasant should be happy to have free run out in our field. Julie gave me the story. The pheasant was timid on being released, stood still looking around for a few minutes and then launched into the air. This was the first time the pheasant had the experience of flying further than from the ground to his roost in the pen. Sadly, in all of the wide-open spaces in the field, the pheasant chose to go south and landed in the middle of the Kootenai River and drowned. Hence my pheasant bronze was titled “Final Flight”. So ended my attempts to raise birds.
The issue with this skunk was not over.

09/04/2024

I finally have a link to THE ROAD TO WINSLOW: THE MAKING OF THE EASY STATUE.

Read the story of how the La Posada Foundation in Winslow AZ commissioned Montana Artist Ron Adamson to create the “Easy” statue. This story spans two continents, and a strange twist with a 90 year old black and white photograph taken on RT 66 in Arizona before pavement.

09/03/2024

Good Morning! A comfortable 50f. I'll be busy with the chainsaw action for the rest of the week. Many thanks for the over 100 orders for THE ROAD TO WINSLOW: THE MAKING OF THE WINSLOW STATUE.
Another back story on the duck eggs and the raven.
"Several other duck eggs had the puncture holes in them. This raven, likely a male has no need to air lift it to a nest. My foundry in the garage is in full swing, there are materials I can use to get back at this raven
As the duck egg is mostly intact, using a drill, the egg is hollowed out. The ceramic for bronze shells is in liquid form. The duck egg gets filled with ceramic. By morning the egg is as solid as a cannon ball and placed on the edge of my lawn and the field.
From my dining room table, there is a good view to the yard. Before finishing breakfast, I see a raven in flight. The raven comes closer, and his head turns and his flight veers toward the egg. A quick walk to the window, as I don’t want to miss this feeding procedure.
The raven is on the ground. This is a different sort of bird dance than a waddling duck makes. There is attitude in this raven. The Raven makes his craw… craw.. craw.. noise. A raven doesn’t waddle or walk like a smaller bird such a quail.
This raven sticks out his chest, holds his head high and does a hop type of maneuver to get up the egg. There’s a bit of a side dance around the egg, the raven sticks out his chest, c***s his head right and left, looks straight up to the sky and repeats this dance. I’m thinking he’s figured out by smell, or the raven can see the ceramic filler where the little holes were. The raven dances around some more, turning his head to the right, then left, and then a general look all around.
Ravens are really smart birds and aware of their surroundings. The ceramic in the egg is not like a plaster of paris, this material is very hard. The raven might be seeing me watching through the window, as he keeps turning his head this way and that. Is this going to be an Edgar Allen moment with a gently tapping action? The raven starts another dance, hops into a position, chest out, head all the way back, and like a woodpecker the raven propels his head foreword and hits the egg. B***k, the raven’s spine must have been rattled as his head veered off to the left. His head goes straight up and shakes back and forth. His head levels off and shakes left to right. The dance starts again, the raven stalls and stares at the egg with a slightly tilted head stance. The raven stares at the egg and then does the craw.. craw.. craw.. looks all around, move in again with the head way back with a quick thrust and B***k, the beak hits the egg, and his beak bounces off.
I don’t know if this ceramic egg experience is like stubbing your toe, but the raven goes back to this head in the air stance, and the side-to-side action to shake it off seems to be the reason. After a few seconds of shaking it off, the raven does the hop around dance and gives the egg an evil side stare for a good sixty seconds. He’s got attitude, this egg is not going to win. The dance is underway and raven pauses and gives the duck egg another good long stare. As the raven hopped around looking for a better position he would stop and give the egg a serious, “what is up with this” kind of a look.
Attempt number 3. The raven moves in and puts his head low to get a better read on this egg. He’s got to have it figured out by now that egg is a counterfeit. There he goes, the hop, chest out, head up, and a powerful lunge forward. B***k! The raven almost fell over. This egg is not flinching. The raven is staring at the clouds with his beak wide open. He’s not shaking his head from side to side this time, he seems to have a bit of a shiver. His beak closes as his head moves to level, then he c***s his head sideways and stares at the egg for another 60 seconds. The raven hops away from the egg, lowers his head and does the side-to-side action again. A hop around dance and one final stare at this tough egg and the raven flew off.
I left the egg on the lawn for a couple of weeks. The Raven never did return. The ducks held their freedom to live in the river, but sadly one by one the ducks got picked off by the eagles. “The Lame Duck Farm” became the "No Duck Farm."
The geese were never seen again, the ducks are all dead, but I have 3 pheasants in the garage. And yes, there is a story out in that barn.
Having the ducks for a short time helped me to win several best of show awards. "Bottoms Up" in Vancouver WA was one, years ago.

08/26/2024

Good Morning. We're starting off with a cool 44f. A little side story to add to a mention in THE ROAD TO WINSLOW: THE MAKING OF THE EASY STATUE. The book makes a comment about me being bare foot. Doing the quick carve at the Charlie Russell show made for a problem for me. I was doing a wood carving. The show was set up for paintings. My make shift stand that I fasten my wood to, slipped around on the concrete as I was next to the indoor pool. In order to help hold my stand in place, I had to take off my shoes and hold the 2 of the legs with my toes. I looked like I fell off the Montucky bus as most everyone was in fancy attire. But it got me news. TV coverage and Front Page on the Great Falls Tribune, and a number of "what a nut case" comments. Another issue I had was not being a cowboy. I never felt the cowboy hat worked for me as it did other artists and I couldn't pass as an American Indian. So I opted for this outfit. I took a lot of heat and nasty remarks from a few fellow artists. But again, the outfit got me on KXLY in Spokane. A few side points not in the book. The photo is from 1984.

08/25/2024

Good morning! Another cool start. THE ROAD TO WINSLOW: THE MAKING OF THE EASY STATUE. Is headed to the printer. I'm not sure how long that takes. The printer says maybe 30 days. I'm hopeful I'll have them in Winslow next month. Pre orders are $20.00 dollars per book. After they are printed they will run $25. I will have color pictures and it is a non fiction book. Real interviews, facts and locations. Some school friends, family members and even Larry!

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