Mary (Our Lady Expectant)

This sculpture will be completed in a cast material and finished in polychrome from a garden at a residence in DC.

Painted and varnished!
Beginning the finishing! Painting on Binder (Fusion I.A. Binder). This will seal the surface in preparation for gesso.
Suface sanded and patched. All ready for painting.
Right out of the mold!
Casting
Beginning Casting
Diassembled Pieces of the Mother Mold
De-Molding
Mother Mold Completed
Adding the Mother Mold
First step of molding making – silicone rubber.
Finishing up.

Current status – Fleshing out the hair and jar.

Fleshing out the face, building the jar, and developing the body and clothing.

For the month of August, I am away on a contract labor job, so Our Lady is well-wrapped so that she won’t dry out!

For the month of August, I am away on a contract labor job, so Our Lady is well-wrapped so that she won’t dry out!
Our Lady at the end of July.

Refining the portrait.
Adding volume to the clothing.
Suggesting the clothing.
Developing the form.
The armature now set up and adding clay.
The armature assembled on the turn table and ready for clay to be added.
Working drawings at full size. These will be used to make the armature to the correct dimensions and to design the clay model.
Armature from previous project. This will be disassembled and used to make the armature for this project, along with new wire to be ordered.
Here is the small model of the piece to be sculpted and cast in resin-reinforced gypsum and finished in a manner to be determined.