At this point, I'm starting to do the actual sculpting. I've removed most of the "bulk" material, and things are starting to get dangerous! One mistake here could ruin the whole piece, so lets just say things are getting stressfull now. This is still a profile view, one of the challenges with this project is, there are no front views of this statue in Paris. At least I have never found any on the internet, and I have stood on the roof of notre dame in Paris and I can't see how you could view the front of this piece.
From this profile view I need to start sculpting the actual face, I'm twisting my mind around this and trying to imagine what the face would look like.
Design Note: The back portion of the limestone I selected has
partial drill holes where the slab was mined. I've decided to leave the back as it is. At the Cathedrals of Europe, when a piece is
recarved to replace an existing carving, it almost certainly has been removed or fallen leaving this type of surface on the backs of the drain pipes, gargoyles, etc. This is very natural so I have decided to keep that look, as if the piece came off the side of a Cathedral.
(The above links are very interesting, take the time to click on them and read about these subjects.)
Here I have drawn the Face of the Piece, or what I imagine it looks like. I'm about to start roughing out some front sections. You will start to see the Gargouille emerge from the stone.
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