Ah... St. Margaret of Antioch - I feel I know you s well after our time together today. You - there in basswood, or was it walnut I can't recall. You were attributed to one 'Nikolaus Gerheaer von Leiden' and had a hole in your chest to carry pieces of dead things - a reliquary.
This is the one I'm happiest with today. I loved the way the sculptor brought the braided hair out of wood and this is a good example of the type of crown I was referring to in what I wrote about the King Herod piece - negative space between shapes. More elgant than his.
Seems like eyes are forever a problem with sculpture. There is no real textural difference across an entire eyeball. Some sculptors choose to drill pupils, or add some relief where the iris starts, but those are just false indications. Painted on, unless the entire sculpture is painted or gilt or polychrome, they just look silly.
I think if I ever get to that level I would need to touch on inlays. Nothing too drastic - or the actual eye color, just a different stone of the same color that I am working on. Perhaps inlay limestone into alabaster, but keep the surfaces even. I'm probably thinking too hard about this, but eyes ad hair are pretty big issues in stone or wood.
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