More importantly, this was my first dance with carving negative space into a sculpture. Once I had my wax original completed (with the body and neck as one piece, set apart from the four legs, all of which would be welded together in the bronze), I decided to cut out the giraffe’s spots rather than create them in the patina. Once cast and patinaed, the cutaway spots appear darker then the swirl-textured surface, delivering a fresh new interpretation of a giraffe’s spots.

I think that this could be really fun to look at at a much larger scale, say, eight feet high, or even life-sized.

Donations cheerfully accepted.

35″ H x 6″ W x 4″ D

So that’s what I did. Cut, cut, cut.

It was hand-cast in bronze, polished and patinaed with layers of brush-splotched white patina over a mottled dark patina base.  It stands astride a half-sphere of white onyx atop a black marble cylinder.

Just as was my Equine Waltz sculpture, this was inspired by the Chinese Gansu Horse, a reproduction of which I have treasured for over 30 years.

It stands 18″ H x 12″ W x 6″ D.