Now that the Roman Ruins panel is essentially finished and needs to dry out slowly, I am ready to cast the wolf roundel st for a client in Brooklyn, NY who  plans to install it in the brick wall of his garage. I had to make a whole new mold of it due to the first mold’s rubber portion tearing far too easily and making it unusable.

I had put off replacing the mold untill I had an order at hand for it since replacing a mold this size costs around $250 in materials and two days of work. Actually this set has two molds and the second mold should be replaced next.

Here’s what the complete five piece assembly looks like on the wall in my studio:

After another 3-4 hours work this evening I came to the last square inch on this model and now it’s finished!

There will be a little more final cleaning up on it to do yet as it dries out.

The clay is Continental course red clay with grog.

I finally got back to this after letting it sit a while, it’s now kind of leather hard so I need to get the finishing done quickly.
All the work I did today was on just the winged lion, hopefully tomorrow I can finish his front paws and get a substantial amount done on the other half.