Egyptian Relief Plate

After an exhaustive 24 hours of work over this past
weekend, the latest sculpture is almost finished. The motivation for this piece was my former pet named Daisy - an African Basenji. Atop the relief shows her profile as a young pup and the bottom portions symbolize her "night-and-day" personality.

A little tailoring and detail work is still needed followed by a wax finish coat. This should be market-ready in about a week...

This is a photograph of some of my more recent workings. From left to right the third and fifth pieces are now completed (Lionhead and Moonface). The other three are nearing completion but still amount to a couple of weeks of detail work.

I hope to make good progress over the next four days of what seems to be great upcoming weather!

Today should prove to be an excellent day for sculpting. Usually it is my experience that the "hotter the better" when it comes to working in stone. We are expecting a high in the 90 degree range, it should be perfect.

The photo in this entry shows some of the basic tools with which the transformation from stone takes place. I keep things pretty simple and use no power tools except for in sharpening chisels.

Once in a while a passer-by my home will stop and ask "What is that going to be... that thing that you are working on?", to which I'll reply "Oh... It will still be just a stone!".


I will end this entry with my thoughts for today:

At times, life can smell sweeter than it will ever taste...

Today's entry is one with no relevant photo, but instead a photograph that I took sometime ago.

This is the home that my family, back in the early 1980's built together mainly due to the engineering skills of my Father and the amazing capacity for everything else, which my Mother brought to the table!


I spent about 3 hours in an attempt to replicate a previous work of mine, but with an interesting twist. First, about the original piece :) - this was a "sphinx" type sculpture retaining the classic interpretation sans the scale. The difference in the second (this current) sculpture is that the inflection is more modern. In the current "influenced" version, the sphinx is atop a sphere. The intentional skew is the control that it exudes over the analogous Earth... Things are turning out well... much more to do!