- 4. The seam silver-soldered.
- 27. The face is really taking shape. At this point I was in the middle of a week-long struggle to change it from what looked more like a male face into a reasonably good representation of a female face.
- 19. Another stake for the nose, for the process shown in the next image.
- 2. Starting the cylindrical form with hammer and wood V-block.
- The Finished Piece
- 32. Ready to silver-solder the seam.
- 24. The results of the work done since the last annealing.
- 21. Giving the ears some three-dimensionality, starting with an indentation to suggest an ear opening.
- 29. The tape pattern, above, and the brass piece cut out and annealed, below.
- 25. With a small ball stake underneath, planishing the cheeks.
- 26. After annealing, I filled it with sculpture wax, for doing the rest of the texturing, forming the mouth, and hoping to curve the trunk some more. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of these processes, and the trunk did not want to curve much mor
- 27. Starting the horn. To get a pattern, I covered a tapered mandrel with masking tape and marked a spiral on it with pencil.
- 29. More planishing on the hair.
- 22. The finished piece.
- 20. Pushing out a bulge on a polyurethane block with the hydraulic press.