Showing posts with label metal clay commissions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metal clay commissions. Show all posts

Thursday, December 19, 2013

The Washington monument is not a phallic symbol.

Well okay..... maybe the Washington monument is a phallic symbol but in my latest commission I tried not to make it look like one.

I had a commission to make a tie tack with the Washington Monument on it for a first year history teacher.  Sounded easy enough until I started working on my designs for the piece.  Darn, it was hard to come up with something that didn't look like a giant..... you know what!

But, I think I did it.  I moved it off to the side.  Put the reflection pool in front and a few bushes off to the right to balance it.

Here is the design I was working from.  (Easy to make in it's big form.  Not so easy in the small form.  Where's the 30% shrinkage clay when you need it?)
Here's what I ended up with.


As usual, the picture doesn't do it justice.  Actually the photo does look a little like a ............, but it doesn't in reality.   (I hope!)