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Published: 2011-11-06 04:14:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 3423; Favourites: 107; Downloads: 37
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I found a dodo.This a pre-Windstone sculpture I made in stoneware ceramic. Fortunately , before it blew up in the kiln, I had a mold made. We still have three ( at least) castings, and a pile of stoneware dodo shards.
This guy is big. He weighs about thirty pounds in gypsum, and is about the size of a small goose, which is about half as big as a real Dodo bird.
This is an unpainted raw gypsum casting. I have a two painted versions, just can't find them.
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A gorgeous piece, as always. The detail in the feathers is simply remarkable.
And kilns always vex me. Its a crapshoot whether the piece you spent 30 hours on lives or dies. And I've had more than my fair share of explosions....
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Yes. It is awful! The original of this one did blow up.
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Aw, and he's so beautiful. I actually cried when a huge, 10 - inch tall cat I made as a gift went in the kiln. Ugh, that one hurt.
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If you can't find two 30 pound sculptures you must have a large place haha! Or a warehouse I'd imagine. I love all your work.
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You have no idea.We recently located our piano.
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Most of them are cast gypsum ( hard dense plaster). A couple of them are cast cement. These are cast in molds made from the original sculpture, which was made from clay.
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This would be amazing in a garden, very sweet and very much like the Tenniel Dodo!
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Wow! When you described the size and weight of this big fella I got the mental image of a pair of these as outdoor pieces - something like the concrete lions or foo dogs sitting outside of doorways and looking either delightfully mean, playful, or full of themselves 
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Yes, I wanted to make these as outdoor yard dodos. Someday!
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I rather like him! Might be nice to see a smaller version for sale
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Yay for giant pigeons! You really captured the dodo-esqueness in this sculpture.
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he would be so cool hanging out in a garden.
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So the original statue went...Extinct?
It looks really nice? Maybe you will find the painted ones someday.
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No extinct, just endangered.
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"This parrot is no more" "This is an ex-parrot"
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