that is great, when you think about it why on earth whould a mans torso be where the horses head is.. a bit odd, great job on the anatomy, but you already know that

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This isn't what it looks like!

thanks

Hey, this piece is incredible.. If you ever want to consider a trade, I used to, and still do patina work on bronze...If not, I'd be more than happy to help with any patina questions...keep up the awesome work..
Take care

this was my first bronze ever, so I cant sell/trade it, even though I hate it and all it's doing is sitting the window sill collecting dust
I probably wont patina this piece because I've basically abandoned it.......it still has particles of the "shell mold" stuck in it, but thanks for you kind words. Im glad you like it

Noooo, I wasn't talking about a trade for your bronze...especially if you took it from a sculpted wax...
I was thinking if you ever wanted to do a trade for any of your other work...
Just really like a lot of your gallery.
Trading is the funnest way for us to collect art we really love.
If you ever get a wild hair I could do a knock out patina on it...
If you get a chance, check out Spectrum 13 and look at the Silver award winner called Centaurus...That's bronze and that would be what I could see going on your sculpture. I worked in a foundry for 6 1/2 years before I started sculpting full time, and 90 % of what went through, wasn't worth casting. Your piece is definitely in the top percentile of what I've seen. The shell is no problem... I can sandblast it and patina it... Just think about it...
You may have a whole different perspective on the piece after it's colored. The trade would be whatever you might sell something for at a gallery or show, and then whatever I would have to charge for the patina. I'm thinking on something like that the patina would come to around $150 to $200 depending on the extent of the shell on it...
Check out [link] That's the foundry I used to work at that still casts my work. I have all the chemicals etc. here at my studio. I do freelance patina now and then for fun for others, but do my own patina work all the time. No problem if you don't want to color your piece though. I totally understand where you're coming from. I have a lot of pieces that I don't put out in public and are stored away or on shelves. I call that shelf "death row". Keep up the great work...Take care

I do consider this to be "death row" material now, because intially it was never intended to be a bronze. I took my first bronze class last year and had to decide what to make so everything was very experimental for me at the time. So this ended up as a test piece...

I originally had this planned as a life size animatronic piece for my thesis, but various things prevented me from starting.....I will however return to the themes of this piece in the near future, and hopfully I will one have a life sized version of this completed before I die...

thanks for the comments...

oh btw do you have a link to that Spectrum 13 Centurus?? I cant seem to find any images on the net

I don't have a link to that particular image, but I do have Spectrums Web site link...that is: [link]
Amazon usually sells back issues of Spectrum as well.
I also saw a link on the artist (andrew sinclair)in my Spectrum book...his email is andy@ridgewaysculpture.com
so I'm assuming that ridgewaysculpture.com is the link to that work.
Good luck!
Take care

Great concept. I agree with you partially on the application (you not being happy with the lack of detail) but I also think that since this is a chimaeric entity and decidely not normal, that lack of refinement and clarity of definition works for it in a sense. Very cool concept. I have never seen anything quite like that.

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"Oh, verdigrisjester? that fool? lemme tell ya, about as deep as a mud puddle with half the clarity. Real winning combination, doncha' think?" -The jester on himself

thanks... I'll be making more of these in the future. Sadly not in bronze though

Too expensive? or just a difficult pain in the ass to do?

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"Oh, verdigrisjester? that fool? lemme tell ya, about as deep as a mud puddle with half the clarity. Real winning combination, doncha' think?" -The jester on himself