Metal sculpture, or Why Not All My Fingertips Have Feeling Any More

[Photos c) Allison R. Sly etc.]

Aside from some minor jewelry laying around (I'll get around to searching it up some day...) I don't have much to put here but the dragon. Yet. I like working with metal (must have got that from my Dad...) so I figure at some point when I've got a bit of space, I'll go back to tinkering with it.


Copper Dragon
This is my best and biggest metal project to date, but it's not earth-shattering or anything. I just happen to like it a great deal. I built it ages ago, over the course of my last year in high school, utilizing all art classes and any study halls I could weasel my way out of. It's made mostly of copper sheeting layered over an aluminum frame that I wrapped in window screen to give it shape. The wing membranes are thin aluminum sheeting (about two steps above foil as far as thickness goes) and are punched with innumerable nail holes along the edges and basically "sewn" to the wing frames (which are themselves wrapped in copper wire) with very thin wire. The arms are wrapped copper wire over aluminum frames, and are epoxy-ed on, as are the teeth (same aluminum as the wing menbranes) and wings. Everything else is soldered together. It's not the sturdiest thing in the world (I've repaired the tail about three times, and it's due for another) I'd also like to make a good stand for it; the one you see I threw together out of what I could find in the garage. There was supposed to be another dragon to go with it, in brass, but I ran out of time. Some year I'll get back to it.

Dragon - D-cell for size comparison

Dragon - Head shot

Dragon - Front

Dragon Three-Quarter