Dawn & Dusk....completed!

Dawn & Dusk (Diptych)
37 X 22 X 2.5"
Bronze, 2011
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Dawn & Dusk are high relief diptych panels of two female figures representing dawn and dusk. Draped figures stand in archway with a small verse unscripted at bottom. The panels were designed for a grand front entry door being currently built at Real Carriage Door Company! (pictures coming soon) They will be installed in an entry door next week and being going to the AIA Conference in New Orleans, LA.
Inscription reads:
Left Verse
Awaken to the song of wings
that every morning softly sings
Right Verse
Watch now as the sun sinks low
amber light and shadows grow
By Kim Smith (my Sister)
Detail of left corner on the 'Dusk' panel. The top arch way reads "Dusk Welcomes Dawn"

Dawn & Dusk Relief Panels

I've been so busy finishing my panels I haven't had a chance to continue posting the process, so now that I am done sculpting them I thought I'd post how I got there!

Here is where the idea began - a drawing I did in 2009. They originally were designed to go in an entry door made by Real Carriage Door Company. I've worked on this piece off and on between commissions and after each commission I would come back and change an aspect of the design. It has been evolving over the past two years.

Where I was in early January of 2011

Detail

Working on getting the leg of Dusk in the right place.

Dusks drapery is complete.

My Husband, Jeremy Broderick, really helped with the project being the perfectionist that he is! He designed text, determined placement, and sculpted the text. Jeremy helped stay true to the organic yet perfect balance of the Art Nouveau style! I couldn't have completed it without him!

Above are pictures of completed Dawn & Dusk in clay before we started the molds. They are now at the foundry (2 Raven Studio in Tacoma, Washington) and being cast in Bronze for Real Carriage Door Company in Gig Harbor, Washington. The door has been awaiting the bronze panels for quite some time now.

Poem Credit goes to my sister: Kim (Rees) Smith on bottom right and left panels. She is also the beautiful model for Dusk. She is always an inspiration to me and I don't tire of sculpting her.

Founder's Day

We arrived at Shawnigan Lake School to present the maquette (1/3 life size scale model) on October 23rd. It was the schools Founder's Day & Alumni Reunion. There were Alum there who had graduated as recently as 2000 all the way back to the 1940s.

Mardie Rees with sculpture!

C.W. Lonsdale & Dog - was presented to the Gold Club (Alum for 50 years or more). The class of 1960 had an induction ceremony and all members listened to my presentation on the sculpture.

The maquette was presented on a base to better depict how it will be installed in bronze.

SUSA Fund (Shawnigan USA) members and also Gold Club Members. From Left: Sharon Elmaleh,  Stuart Milbrad, Francois Elmaleh, Mardie Rees (sculptor), Katharine Burr, John Burr. Missing: Mary Milbrad and my husband, Jeremy Broderick

Many alum had a good look at the sculpture at the Alumni Banquet on Saturday night!

Banquet and Reunion drawing to an end Saturday night in Marion Hall

The maquette was crated back up for the return trip home by ferry from Vancouver Island, Canada. It survived the trip there and back without any large cracks!