• Architectural Sculptures

    Nurse roundel

    At first I was going to leave the convex molding plain, but as it progressed, the plain convex molding and shape was starting to resemble a car tire, with a fancy hub cap to me, so I decided it really needed the egg & dart. Looking at the original, it is not a random repeat design as it might seem, it has an even 16 repeats of the egg & dart pattern. it became clear they placed an “egg” at exactly the 12, 3, 6, and 9 o’clock positions, leaving 2 repeats between each, so it was easy enough to find the four main points 12, 3, 6, 9, and…