"You're an artist. This is wonderful. You sculpt."
The single room was nearly as big as the main area of the cottage. And much more cramped. A worktable stood in the center, crowded with tools and hunks of stone, pots of clay. A half dozen sketch pads were tossed around. Shelves and smaller tables were jammed with examples of his work. Mystical, magical creatures that danced and flew.
A blue mermaid combed her hair on a rock. A white dragon breathed fire. Faeries no bigger than her thumb ringed in a circle with faces sly. A sorcerer nearly as tall as she, held his arms high and wept.
"They're all so alive, so vivid." She couldn't help herself, she had to touch, and so she ran her finger down the rippling hair of the mermaid. "I've seen this before," she murmured. "Not quite this, but the same feeling of it, but in bronze. At a gallery in New York."
Ever After
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By Ricardo André Frantz (User:Tetraktys) Background edited, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2923870
Here are some of the most impressive sculptures ever created by masters
of the art past and present. Perhaps most people will be unfamiliar with
them, but they have the power to astonish with their sheer beauty even
at first sight.
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Conal stepped back from his own work. His hands were smeared with clay to the wrists, and his eyes half blind with concentration.
Allena of the Faeries. She stood tall, slim, her head cocked slyly over one shoulder, her eyes long and her mouth bowed with secrets. She wasn't beautiful, nor was she meant to be. But how could anyone look away? How could he?
Her wings were spread as if she would fly off at any moment. Or fold them again and stay, if you asked her.
Ever After
