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Jim came into this world with a full compliment of talents that few people could have handled. He expanded most of them and in the end, many of them provided a frame of reference or support for the work he did in Paleontology.
This is a listing of most of them with a few details. Click on each and you will go to a webpage where examples and explanations are provided.
0. Avocations - ways he made money to support his arts
1. Arts
-Calligraphy
-Oil, Pastels, Charcoal & Chalk, Acrylic
-Silk Painting
-Jewelry
--Ivory
--Copper Enamel
-Ceramics
-Block-printing
-Silk Screening
-Photographer
-Draftsman
2. Sculptor
-Human busts
-Animals
-Dinosaurs
3. Metal Working
-Journeyman Welder
-Journeyman Machinist
-Manhattan Project, Reactor B @ Hanford
-Knife maker
-Gunsmith
4. Inventor
-Centerless drill
-Monovalve
5. Naturalist
(There is no tidy rubric under which to organize the following which contributed to his success in Paleontology so I’ll lump them here)
-Taxidermy
-Rock Hound Fossil Collector
-Studied botany, geology, entomylogy
-Mountain climber
-Rescuer/body retriever
6. Writer
“Blood in the Snow”, Alaska Sportsman 1954. Mountain goat hunting trip
-Poetry (!)
See PUBLICATIONS tab for his bibliography..
7. Music & Drama
-Performer
-Music Instrument repairs
-Music instrument builder -
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