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Marble stegosaurus sculpture

Walter S. Arnold, Sculptor

Updated Nov. 5, 2006
I hope you like what I've been doing.
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I have several pages showing work in progress. They explain the creative process:
  • Follow the stages in carving two gargoyles with step by step photos
  • Indiana Gargoyles - the steps to carve a gargoyle for a museum exhibit
  • The sequence of designing and caving a large Tudor fireplace
  • View the development from CAD drawings to completed carving for a large arched fireplace, complete with VRML 3D images.
  • I carved a series of 13 panels showing student athletes for the Univ. of Chicago Lab School. See drawings, roughed out stone, and completed panels for that project.

Replacement gargoyle for Bowdoin College, Maine A large replacement gargoyle for Bowdoin College in Maine. The original, on the left, is over 100 years old. It was badly damaged and I carved a duplicate in limestone. This is a true gargoyle, a functioning waterspout. I suspect the throat on the original got clogged, probably with leaves, and over the years ice in the winter caused it to crack. The heavy icicles which would hang from his mouth in the winter likely contributed to the problems, but still, 100 years is probably longer than most contemporary buildings will survive.
Democratic gargoyle Republican gargoyle
I carved the donkey and elephant for a building in Washington, D.C.
Marble Roman winged victoryVittoria Alata, a reproduction in marble of an ancient Roman bronze winged victory sculpture. Hildesheim Germany grotesqueThis carving is based on a carved wood grotesque on a building trade guild house in Hildesheim, Germany.
Chicago Board of Trade art deco relief panelsSix art deco relief panels for the restoration of the Chicago Board of Trade Building. A family crest graces this limestone keystone for a new home in Chicago.
Working gargoyle will protrude from the wall of the home Wisconsin Gargoyle
This is the first of five gargoyles which I carved for a lakefront home in Wisconsin. They are true working gargoyles. Rainwater drains through their mouths. Each one weighs about 500 lbs (225 kg) and protrudes 26" (66 cm) out from the wall of the home. 

You can see another of this series on my Gargoyles of the 21st Century page, and photos of work in progress and the installed gargoyles on my Wisconsin page.

 26 inch long limestone gargoyle
Two faced gargoyle sculpture This is a four sided sculpture with two grotesque faces and two gothic flowers. This piece started as a study for the gargoyle corbels in a large tudor fireplace. The client who commissioned that fireplace sold their house, but they wanted something to remember it by, so they commissioned me to finish this piece. Flowers on the other side of the gargoyle sculpt
address stone with masqueThis address stone with a gargoylish face is about 16" wide and 9" high. I carved it for a home in Missouri.
Keystone with a lions headThis lion keystone was commissioned by a family who found me through this website. It is about 10" tall and 8" wide, and will go over the front door of their new home in South Carolina. 
 I've carved three gargoyle benches for the gymnasium at the University of Chicago Lab School. Each bench has two athlete gargoyles forming the legs. You can see more photos of these pieces on my Benches page. 

Soccer playing gargoyle
Soccer Player

Start of the race, the grotesque is at the blocks
Runner

Side of stone, with foliage and faces. Note gargoyle on the top.

A garden meditation stone, a memorial to a young girl who died of cancer. She loved gargoyles, cats and gardens.

Her portrait is on the front. Note the impish faces on the sides, the cat near the base and the little gargoyle climbing on top of the stone.

A portrait of the girl is on the front of the stone

 
Carving the fossilI carved a fossil skeleton of a dinosaur in a 1400 lb (600kg) slab of  Bardiglio Imperiale marble, a gray marble from Carrara, Italy. You can see the work in progress, and the finished sculpture, on my stegosaurus page.

Two more pages of new work:
Gargoyles of the 21st Century
New fireplaces

Current projects include several gargoyles for the balconies of a home, and number of fireplaces, including one with a dragon motif.
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