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.
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