Two New Pieces Today

It's been quite a while since I did anything new for myself. Today I managed to put together two new pieces using the faces I sandcasted two weekends ago. I usually combine the glass components with old "found objects" have been laying around the studio, waiting for me to have an inspiration about what to do with them. Today, I picked out an old copper oil lamp base that was great with the head of Zeus, which I molded from a terra cotta mask I borrowed from my friends George and Jackie. They got it when they were in Greece. We were over there for brunch, and I noticed it on the patio of their condo. I borrowed it and promised to make them one in glass, which I did. I made a silicone mold from theirs from which I did a plaster reproduction from which I can now make as many as I want.

The other piece I did used the same little face I have used in so many of my pieces in the past. It is mounted on an oval sandcasted glass base. I have included the jaw bone of a wild boar my friend Bill shot at his hunting camp in north Florida. The whole thing is mounted on some old heart pine beadboard left over from the remodeling of our house. I plan on donating this one to the annual Dunedin Fine Arts Center Garden Party auction. I post some pictures, when the pieces are totally finished.