While I was in Colorado carving butterflies into wax, Don was blocking the "Reading Girl" with a chainsaw. When I got back I had to begin work on a maquette as I am a finalist for a commission in Terre Haute, Indiana, so Don continues with blocking out the sculpture until I finish the maquette and can begin carving.
With temperatures in the 90s, it was too hot to work outside anymore, so Don moved the sculpture into the studio. Here he has begun shaping the stone by finding "points" from the model (measuring up and over using various measuring devices, squares, calipers, etc.). You can barely see the maquette in the background...
And here is the other view, now you can see the maquette and that there is a significant amount of stone to be removed...
Don has further refined the form...
You can see the significant change from earlier as Don gets the stone closer to the form of the maquette.
And now for some flowers...
A Dayflower.
A close up of a Deptford pink...
An unusual and tropical looking plant, the Passion Flower. This is the yellow variety.
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