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Today I have finished the original model for the Summer Angel’s head and she is now wearing a crown of shells. I began with a 3-dimensional sketch based on my pencil sketch and after many more 3-dimensional sketches, the final design finally evolved.  The shell crown continued to work, but I simplified the halo and unified it with the butterfly design with the simple little curl at the center. In reproducing the pencil sketch in porcelain, the details were too fine and would therefore be too fragile for the production process as well as in the final fired form.

It is delightful to make a move in the design process that unifies and completes a composition. But actually sometimes these simple direct answers can elude me until they seem to come out of the blue and alleluia the design is done! I am thankful to God for all and every design He gives me.

One nostalgic aspect of this design is that the shell crown is a variation of the shell crown of the very first 5” Limited Edition Angel, The Caroler, which I designed and made in 1980.