My husband, Jeremy Broderick & I (at center) – Along with my family – Rees, Wilkins, and Laughon
It was great to have them there to celebrate the unveiling of my sculpture. 

St. Anthony is finally installed in the Main Lobby of Gig Harbor’s St. Anthony Hospital!!!

I’ve decided on the palcement and I’m happy about the location!! 
Photo Credit: Steve Meltzer, writer & photographer on artists

You can see here I am trying to make a decision on the placement of the sculpture in the hospital lobby.
Photo Credit: Steve Meltzer, writer & photographer on artists

Keving Keating & Steve from the Bronze Works Foundry are drilling the stone to set the sculpture. 

The rods go through the baslalt base and into the floor.
It is well secured with plenty of epoxy!

The sculpture weighs approximately 400 lbs in Bronze

 
And there The Saint & Child sit in the main lobby,
his presence known! 

Commissioned by St. Anthony Hospital, Gig Harbor

SHOWING THE PROCESS OF THE LOST WAX METHOD

Photo Credit: Lee Giles III, Award Winning Photographer for the Peninsula Gateway
(above photo of bronze being poured into cup)

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I’ve been focusing in on the portraits, hands, feet, and the robe the last few weeks. It is currently within a few days of being done!!
Below is what has been going on behind the scenes sculpting St. Anthony & Child.

(Commissioned for St Anthony Hospital’s main lobby)

(St Anthony & Child have wet rags on their heads to keep them cool in the summer heat)

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What is going on in the studio to date? Take a look!
Below is the process of St. Anthony & Child going in the main lobby of the St. Anthony Hospital.

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I visited the location (on July 10th)  of where St. Anthony & Child will go in the main lobby .
It is so exciting to see where they are at in the construction of the hospital…

(the sculpture is going where you see the white buckets)

St. Anthony & Child will have a great view of all the visitors and get plenty of day light.
The windows aren’t in yet on the far wall, but they will be in soon.

I really enjoy this part of the sculpture process. It is the icing on the cake after many many hours of work, and once the bronze sculpture gets that patina all that remains is installation or mounting.

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Below are process photos of the work from this last week or more. I finally have reached a point where I have nearly everything in the right place. I’ve battled the armature a few more times that I would have liked, but this is just the way it is. To refine and build the work often takes the courage to destroy and pull out what is not necessary and then rebuild. It isn’t much different than what we have to do in our own lives as people if we allow ourselves to be malleable. Pain encountered in the process of personal growth is not withheld from the life of the Saints.

View from Below
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Here I roughed in the Child further along with St. Anthony.
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