I’m going to consider this model as finished (other than some overall cleaning up) and to-morrow if I feel better from the nasty cold I have I’ll strip the wood form off the sides and finish straightening and cleaning up the sides, top and bottom. With this model out of the way I’ll be working on scaling the size for the next model from this Commodore Hotel copper cornice design. The cornice is far too big to use the design in the same size, remember- this cornice was installed on the 30th floor of the hotel- red arrow. Here’s a side view, the tape measure can’t be read in the…

I haven’t done much on this model in the last couple of weeks since I’ve been busy elsewhere on other things, but today I did some work on this and will continue working on it this afternoon. I spent some time this morning refining the hand a bit, the face, and general overall cleaning up of surfaces, and re-drawing the incised lines to clarify and clean them up a bit. The arm is accentualised and becomes a feature which draws the eye in first, it shows strength and power- both themes which were very popular in the 1930’s and you’ll see this in much of the architectural figural sculptures of…