This page is designed to take you through the development process of a sculpture.  If you move your mouse pointer over each image, a larger version will appear over this text.  My study description will start with the upper left-hand image, moving down the column and then over to the upper right-hand column.

Picture #1
After armature and bone measurements are made, then dog muscle and skin muscle is built up.

Picture #2
Measurements being made.

Picture #3
Measurements being made. During a 3-dimensional art process, the artist constantly measures and adjusts the sculpture.

Picture #4
Completion in plasticine. Photos are taken and sent to the patron prior to bronzing.

A mold is made and the wax process begins. The wax study is touched up, and then the foundry performs the lost wax process and it becomes bronze.
A brass pole is welded inside the dog’s head. (This symbolizes the cervical vertebrae of the dog.) A patina is applied to the piece.  The brass rod is now screwed onto a marble base and finished.

Picture #5-8
The finished bronze of Bluie.