Artwork

ArtWork

Robert Fullerton's artwork influence began because of his grandfather, Grandpa Holt; a merchant marine that served as a craftsman's mate, as a youngster, aboard old wooden sailing vessels during the turn of the 20th century. His Grandfather, grandpa Holt, learned sculpting and woodworking aboard these vessels and developed real skills as a craftsman in that trade. Grandpa holt eventually then went on into the movie sets, as a craftsman, building old wooden ships for the many sailing movies being created during the early 20's and 30's; one such movie was "Mutiny on the bounty". Robert learned wood sculpting from Grandpa Holt who took the lad under wing, at a young age. With a stern eye, Grandpa Holt emphasized only one philosophy about his craft that he instilled into Robert, "Perfection is acceptable, everything else is crap" (scrap). Grandpa Holt also created, for various contracting firms during the depression, carvings on buildings such as the gargoyles on the Los Angeles Times building and the two lions in front of the Chicago art museum. On his mother's side of the family, Robert learned about race cars from his other grand parents; Grandma and Grandpa Stokes. Grandma and Grandpa Stokes participated in the early cross country rally's (pre "Gumball" Rally's) during the early 40's and were members of the motorcycle clubs of that era.

Below are a couple of examples culminating from those lessons.

A life sized sculpture of Christ's Crucifixion;
according to Roman method of crucifixion.

A carving called "Brenda".

Wood Carvings.

1969 California State Seal (1969) Photo-2, with Model. The carving is 10 foot by 10 foot by 6 inch thick clear redwood slab. The carving was started and almost finished at the 1969 California State fair. As a single man display carving a simple piece of wood, Bob Fullerton took second place over all prize at the State fair; the first place went to a multi-million dollar IBM computer display. The State Governor, Ronald Reagan, was to be presented the carving at a show in Oakland but, movers mishandled the carving in the move to the Oakland fair grounds and the artwork wound up, face down at 70 MPH, in several small pieces on the freeway.
Brenda. Photo of the finished carving.
Brenda (a). an idea of the scale of the carving.
Brenda (b). Finishing the lower half
Brenda (c). Facial detail.
Brenda (d). Just before burning and finish.
Claudius. A Roman, soldier, citizen and eventual ruler of an Empire. The carving went on display at a Bank of America office, South Lake Tahoe, in 1968.
A d etail of Claudius's arm. Claudius's in full finish scale. Claudius, just after the application of finish.
Sprint Car.
Schneider's Miller. A tribute to a fifth generation race car builder, driver, and fellow inventor; Pete Schneider.
Jeanne's Rose. A large relief study of a flower in full glory.
John Davidson.
Horse Head. The three dimensional portrait of the winged horse Pegasus.
Snow Hawk - Totem. The totem, a facsimile of the indigenous North American snow hawk, is the same hawk that Chief Joseph carries in the glass relief (below). Chief Joseph is believed to have carried a similar artifact during his fight and flight across the American plains to Canada during the attempt to salvage the Nez Pierce tribe from the onslaught of the horseback mounted Calvary, during the late 1890's
Fish (modern composition).

Glass Carvings.

Jeanne's Rose. Same as the composition in wood (above).
Chief Joseph Nez Pierce, on horse back.
Deer Scene. Same composition as the wood carving (above), The carving/relief sculpture is a single piece of colored tempered glass that was originally a mirror once was used in a Nevada brothel during the turn of the century. This glass was sought out because of its unique coloring process that is not present in present-day mirrors, or other types, of tempered reflective glass.

Drawings and Portraits.

Portrait - Jeanne.
Blue Girl. Pink Girl.
Self Portrait.
Portrait of Corinne.