I now have the letters roughed out at least, a lot to do to this yet!

The first cast, already reserved for a client, the red color is a base colorant used in the casting material, this one will be given the bright gold finish.

I thought I would make a model after this very ornamental monogram pictured below: The antique original pictured above came from the old James McCreary Dept store on 23rd Street, 6th Avenue, NYC, I removed it from the lower portion of one of the metal elevator doors when the building was being demolished around 1974. I had added the frame and painted detailing around then. The poor photo from 1982 doesn’t show it well, but it’s a very entwined, ornamental 3D design that would translate nicely in clay I think. I will make the design about 15″ square. The original sign is low relief but interesting intertwining of the letters,…

I have the first cast on hand now of this panel, this one is reserved for a client, the red is the base color in the casting material and this is drying out before I can apply the finish to it: D10 is next, and the mold for that will be finished next week.

Artifact from the Riviera/Riverside theaters in NYC, removed in 1976 She was based on the old symbol for America “Columbia” pictured below, which was the female symbol before the Statue of Liberty. Though bearing a similar resemblance to one another, Columbia is much older.

A client ordered a D8 panel in the red terracotta, and before I crate it for shipping I thought i would snap a picture of it. Another client ordered one as well, and she also purchased D9 and D10 which have been finished but not molded as they were pending a firm order before doing that step. Next week I should be starting work on the molds for D9 and D10, for reference they are pictured below and they will be in production in a couple or three weeks or so.

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…

I’ve already started D10, “Enlightenment” a couple of weeks ago but I haven’t done much to it untill today. Here’s a progress view.

This model is now almost dry and is finished, as before I will not be making a mold until I have a firm purchase order for the first cast. Maybe next week I will start the 3rd and final planned model in this set.