Grover the grasshopper emerging

Ozimandios the Octopus lifting his tentacles and gliding to splendour...

Ozimandios the Octopus venturing over seas far and wide, entered my mind...

I felt there was something poetic to make the eyes closed, as thought the menace of the creature would seem more inclined, when we think of them as squidgy. He has a crown above his head, that shows he is a large octopus, that is the kind that might tackle a shark perhaps.

The sketch on the rock is barely seen however on the front you mostly see sketched well the head, the eyes as almost looking like upturned smiles that fit as a pair on a dome or rock. The small tendril to the left of the rock, underneath the left eye is quite well represented, the mouth has small tentacles that are suggestive of the fronds that are like the excess frivolous parts that allow for consumption of creatures that get digested whole, yum, yum - says Ozimandios.

 These other shots were my attempt of trying to be able to show the sketches revealing the plan of where my chisel would be guided, where the recesses would scour the rock, cleaving out the granules to reveal my working might! haha, that sounds like literature written for some character who might depict Thor, Zeus, or some superhero, maybe.

 I thought when I produced this octopus that somehow I might not be taken seriously if I considered my octopus to have a feature of small tendrils beneath its mouth, but it wasn't so bad and he needs to have something like that a bit like some men need a handlebar moustach although it seems almost quite pointless to have such a thing.

 The picture below was the beginning of me etching out the tentacles for the octopus that show his biggest tentacles to journey down the rock, they are the largest tentacles guiding Ozimandios to warmer parts of the ocean, where he can crush a seal to death to eat him, or gorge himself on several thousand silver fishes....

 I like the fact that some people I have been seeing recently have such domed heads, that perhaps in my mind, the playfulness was suggesting that to work at healing one's mind of the burden of poverty, certain aspects become the suggestive part of one's art, although the fictional element of 'bald octopus' not 'bald human' makes it seem that the suggestion is almost annulled. But I couldn't possibly be wrong, when I consider that dinosaurs were the theme at the beginning as I love the fervour of life, the dynamic of their great survival, their instinct and their great ability to hunt, the octopus is then a illustration of me detracting from that, showing the ocean almost seems at times to wash away signs of dangerous hunting sprees under the canny lull of the waves...Such a different world and dimension we notice when we peer through green and blue eyes that wobble with suprise.

 I show that I am inclined to creating a pointed aspect to the top dome of the creatures head, the bottom part will define a certain rift between two domes, that bottom dome will obviously be larger, the distance of the eyes I thought was very good, the fronds a good suggestion of a creature that is cunning, for its mouth. And that a creature is menacing without staring you in the eyes, is a powerful display of nature and its instinctive excellence. I can definitely move away from 'dinosaur themes' and 'plant themes' to 'to animals in peaceful or other repose' themes. This definitely creates a warm issue of prosperous hope upon my heart to initiate great ways to move forward inspired by new methods of discovery upon pondering my stones and upon allowing myself to really take time to learn my art...

Here is a good representation of how my large tentacles on the right hand side of my creature are improving due to etching out the surface between the head and the curls.... I was watching bits of the Red squirrel spanish film afterwards and it is about a woman who falls of a motorbike and falls in love with a black haired beauty, maybe the mention of a spanish film, makes you think of spanish people loving calimari! But other than that, there is not tie between the film, the name of the film either, i.e. 'Red Squirrels' and one of the kings of the seas.

 Here is a close up look of the surface of the head and how it really does seem very nice in its browny grey way! There hammer placed so close by does give the picture a rustic look of me getting on with hard graft, that is a good image too of seeing a ball like hammer end that fits almost in symmetry with the roundness of the dome of the head of the octopus too...

 It almost seems like a Bishop from a church doesn't it, the octopus, that has a high role in duties performed in church and in ceremony the Bishop then says to his people, ''I give you this bread and wine'' and so on and with closed eyes, then offers humbly the offerings in great passion for his people... The octopus however just has a passion for his ecosystem and his appetite, so perhaps a lot more basic.

I started here to show that I am now going to curve the dome of the head with one of my larger rufflers, they curvature will allow for the creature to seem more fluid within his environment, if fantasising the creature were a real one, now for instance opposed to the lizard this octopus wouldn't seem like an octopus at all, as to his size, but if I were richer I would spend £60 on a larger rock and design something that would look incredibly splendid and have a much greater perspective upon his audience, almost ensnaring you into the tangled weaves and hypnotising you closer to his quivering fronds, that succulently froth and spew the saliva in delight.

Here were the final stages of Ozimandios before he got carted off and made available to my father and his partner Christine, who lovingly placed him underneath the fireplace, where he feels quite cosy having at night occasionally worked his tentacles onto light undercurrents in the wind at night and gone for a night swim, he oftens finds he can feel contented that like the BFG he escapes without them knowing his cunning being that noone knows what he is up to with his eyes like a bishops always turned downwards. 

Fiery Flying Fish with rasping tongue....

           Here is the Fiery fish, the fish that will be one of many that will emerge out of the rocks that I have produced. I shall like to produce an innumerable amount of them. 

           I will decide to perhaps do a koi fish next for a friend of mine... He is a good friend and it will be a belated gift to him for his birthday. I just enjoy the joy of creating something that no doubt is a free flowing gift from the river of my goodness... I am glad I started on the lip area. It did seem that this rock being a fish rather than a plant or just abstract art of some kind that was shape based was a wonderful choice.

When I look at it, it is possible that to begin with the start of this sculpture definitely appears like out of Constantine like those strange demon creatures without eyes, then later you find more solace when you see eyes appear, that is the beauty of eyes, usually there are two of them, somehow the beauty of seeing two of them stuck in the skull of our heads, is a comfort, baffling though in some way... Well it is good, I remember once seeing someone with one eye and it seemed a little too stark to see that person with his one good eye.. Nevermind, I geuss in some way you accustom yourself to the idea that somehow we approve by the guidance of a higher power that gives us a hint as to what is reckoned mostly instinctively correct, but in rarity is acceptable in small doses. I accept that the truth lies at a pinnacle point that revolves so magnificently it is too raw a sight for the eye, to divulge in for too long a time...

I still am aware that the mouth here, may or may not seem a little large, however the true difficulty with which to consider the exact measurements in accordance with the sketch is not always planned exactly to the designed draft, that allows one the guidance to complete the sculpture in question...

The side shot of the sketch and the sculpture is evidently, a better shot that gives the viewer a better look at the fiery head, that remains quite spikey, quite thoroughly spikey, then there is also another shot which pleases the viewer to show my ability to allow the viewer the different shots that give the viewer the choice of which shot suits them aesthetically according to their taste...

I like this shot, it shows the redness, not unlike Levi the Leviathan, when it was being dug out of the rock, with those wonderful chisels of mine. I did not see enough of a good shot to enjoy looking at it now, therefore I ploughed on and in doing so....

I was giving on either side of the tongue more availability of emerging succesfully when drilling great depths under it, to do so, it was quite an energetic moment, to feel quite engaged and fervent in the desire that it was mastered, it was being mastered quite masterfully...

The tongue curling in this way almost suggests that the creature is playing at rasping at the audience, the rasping is an intention of a creature that is needing to display some notion of just being foolish for a short time, flittering away near the Waterfalls, near the flying fish, but knowing that he feels proud, to be a mystical one not unlike Turtalius, a rare breed, that happens to be seen very rarely like the pixies or the fairies in the woodland, when he chooses to be seen, by those that are righteous....(just being daft, but its fun).

I had loved this picture as it the first part of me showing the creatures fierce look being quite well mastered, I was doing this by making sure not unlike a painter at using the chisel to see if I could get the distance with thumb and finger measuring how far the distance of the end of the almond of the eye was, first and foremost, then measuring the inside of the eye and then making sure little indents were made, to get the general idea displayed and just use my risk in etching it with my own proud gesture of etching away in abandon. The result is great. I just need to make sure that I definitely make the creatures face appear further below the eyes as if they bulged with fury, at being quite desireably, intent on action and flourishing down the best slipstream routes in the hot currents..

Here is the sketch of a sculpture to be produced in the future which will be titled Frequency of sunshine signs...

I will pray to find such a rock as it will be really great to be able to work on something so large.

It will have a frequency symbolic momentum inside with circular parts as representations of balance when frenetic strife is still abudant, jagged edges versus, circular paths...

Here you can see quite distinctly that I am now underoing the efforst to make a 'V' shape groove on the fish tail at the rear end of it, usually where a tail is, isn't it. haha. Well and it was interesting how when using my fingers I found that mirroring the pattern by using my fingers as guide and using the angle as where with pencil if need be, kept me more or less in the same pattern for both sides. It was an interesting thing to work on.

I just need to consider making the back of the creature full of flames and also consider how this has to be done. It will be an interesting process to undertake it. I was really happy to make the leaf like fin on the side of him, to be etched out more, it showed that I was giving him a certain look that made parts of his body 'sunk' respective of what mattered to be noticed as opposed to everything mattering and then it not seeming to be a piece of art.

Here is the finished product of it, the look of it was quite spectacular when it was finished, I had no idea that this fine piece would look so splendid, a fiery fish from Hades emerging and slipping through with some of the flying fish into earths plane for a short time shimmering through undercurrents up and down, his fiery breath sometimes darting out to act like a poison with other fish, in distracting the little fishes before also utilising it in his bright manner to engorge on them, as they past through him and down his great gargantuan throat.