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Michael Sieve
Minneapolis Star Tribune
(Minneapolis, MN), February 18, 1990, Sports Sec., Metro Edition, Pg. 13C
Author: Ron Schara, Staff Writer
Drawing on his experience, wildlife artist Sieve, a natural when
it comes to outdoors.
Houston, Minn. - Like the whitetails he loves to paint, Michael Sieve also
is at home on an oak ridge in southeast Minnesota.
In fact, Sieve's art
studio is on Oak Ridge, a high and winding limestone plateau littered with
rich oak draws that reach like fingers into fields of corn and alfalfa.
In a field crowded
with Minnesota talent, Sieve, at the relatively young age of 38, has
painted his way toward the top of wildlife artistry. While the richest
purse, the federal duck-stamp design, has eluded him (and he does ducks
very well), Sieve's forte clearly is large mammals, notably the deer
family.
"That's
Michael's strength, and he's recognized as a mammal artist," said
Bill Webster, an authority on wildlife art who founded Wild Wings, one of
the nation's largest dealers of sporting art. "I remember when
he walked in to see me, a kid out of school, with five paintings. I think
he was about 23. You could see already that his art was good," said
Webster, who has seen them all.If Sieve can turn
canvas oil into whitetails, there is another reason besides talent."He's a student
of the woods," Webster said. Call it a
conservative description.
Sieve is the
consummate deer watcher. He sits for hours in deer stands, hikes deer
trails by the miles, maps deer hangouts by the dozens.He's a deer hunter
beyond avid, stalking with bow and arrow. When the bow seasons end, he
stalks with a camera.His newly built
studio near Oak Ridge is stashed with deer antlers that Sieve will use for
models. On the back deck, he has built a deer-hunting stand for
practicing, an elevated perch to sharpen his arrow-shooting skills.
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