How can I make the surface of my sculptures as beautiful as they are when they are entirely copper and given a blue-green patina? If I work with other materials, how can I accomplish a look as nice as that? First, I tried created a faux patina with paint, mostly. Then I let go and started just painting and doing other things to create color and texture. One thing I did was begin to work with cloth. In December 2021, I went to a fabric store, and came out with lots of fabrics I found there that I just loved. This frog I wrapped with a piece of one of them. He’s a Valentine’s Day frog, for sure, and he is the first of his kind. He’s wrapped (dare I say, like a gift?) with heart fabric, which I then laminated with resin. So it is very permanent and sealed.

I am expecting this particular treatment I will be duplicating. But this one is the very first. The absolute very first of its kind. I expect to blog about that. I am also timestamping my blog so I can undeniably prove when a work was created. 

I also call him (or her) Vitruvian Man, Almost, because that is the pose that Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous naked man he drew standing in a circle is called. It is almost, but not quite, in that posture, mainly because I would have had to secure him in a more complicated way, to make him exactly like Vitruvian Man. Vitruvian Man is supposed to be of perfect proportions. I like to think this sculpture is perfect. Well, almost. And isn’t that how we feel about our loved ones? 

This sculpture is sold.