Poseidon/Neptune Sculpture

[Killa Kenny]

Re-posted from General: This is a sculpture I have been working on.

It is of Poseidon/Neptune, that I might worship the idol for prosperous diving.

The wax (brown microcrystalline) is close to finished - starting to consider casting and a few other (brainstorm) things:

1. Adding a trident - to be cast or fabricated separately - style?

2. Adding speared prey below him - a mutant tog, or a bass or for some reason a goliath grouper seems fitting, but I'm unfamiliar with that fish.

3. Adding an ocean environment base - is it a reef where the prey has been speared, is there no prey and just a flat bottom or a couple of rocks and he is just floating in the current? I don't know; this is my brainstorm

4. Added prey/base to be cast in metal, or fashioned in ceramic?

Thanks for any feedback

[Crusty Old Dive]

That is incredibly cool and disturbing at the same time. A sure attention getter my friend. How can i get one?

[Killa Kenny]

Thanks, Crusty!

Once in metal, I could make a latex mold to cast reproductions of this piece in whatever.

I'm thinking I'd like to continue working in this style with different materials so maybe this will be part of a series.

Down the line I would def trade art for art - or fishing secrets. I know you got both.

[Crusty Old Dive]

I see:

1. Kelp holding the tail of the merman over a rock base
2. An indigenous fish with a primitive gnarly trident.

[Killa Kenny]

Roger that! Dead on man - kelp idea can be an interesting design element serving an important structural purpose.

Fish will be a big, nasty tog-father with a gnarly trident pinning him down.

Might go with a 3D scan of the piece either bf or after bronze casting, and reproduce it in a variety of materials ( props to Tin Man ).

Thanks for helping the brainstorm.