This has been the project that has been trying to eat me over the last couple of weeks.

The first three sets of photos are the wax progression. The first set is the base sculpture. Its made of wire and paper with bees wax over it. The second set is the rough sculpture (including a scale image with a standard spoon in the background). The third is the version that was cast.

I used a "light gold" bronze to cast it after the little snafu with the last round of bronze castings (it wasn't as bronze as I wanted).

There were some problems with the casting (see the fourth set of photos). There was a slight miscalculation about the amount of metal needed so I had to do a little bit of re-working. I wasn't entirely surprised this happened. Its a big piece for starters (and that always leads to problems) and there is some weird correlation between me having a bad week and something going wrong (even if the piece is being cast 10 miles down the road by my teacher on the schools equipment)...not sure why *shrug*. The students in her class thought he was something else even with the missing bits.



The fifth set of photos is a bit of the progression of the hind quarters. The piece is heavy steel core (18 or 20 gauge, not sure which one) as are the claws. The whole set up took me somewhere on the order of 4 hours to construct. As you can see, its a very densely wrapped piece.

The final set of photos is the finished product. Its going to end up as a desk ornament.

The irony is that my little warg is still way too heavy (even missing his hind end) to go on the beaded head piece I was going to put him on. But he is a hell of a proof of concept. So I will make a smaller (and hopefully lighter) piece for the head piece.

The forequarters of the creature is cast bronze. The hind quarters are wire core with fabric skin.