Personal sourcebook of lion photos. These are from China and Denver. I was collecting these images for a while because I wanted to build my own Chinese stone lion. Right now I’m not as interested in the idea, but the visual concept might come up in another project somehow.
This was the final result of my second sculpture project this semester- I was very inerested in old, ornate picture frames (http://theorangefedora.blogspot.com/search/label/frames) that you see in museums. The frames are so intricate and were all handcarved, yet the maker is never given credit. I left my frames empty to draw attention to the handiwork that …
I am currently collecting pictures of highly ornate frames for my sculpture class project on portraiture. I am going to create my own frames and cast them in plaster using the blanket-mold process. I have always thought it was really interesting how paintings from the 1800’s have these incredible frames but the carvers are rarely …