The palette

A honey sandstone lion with a red-brown mane: smooth sandstone with a little sandstone for the coat, orange and brown terracotta for the mane, brown terracotta for the nose, black concrete for the eyes; a grey plinth of stone bricks, polished andesite and smooth stone panels.

Techniques

• A lying pose
• A mane that frames the face
• A long plinth with panels

The steps

1. Plinth: the talus
2. Plinth: the die and its panels
3. Plinth: the moulded cornice
4. Legs and paws
5. Body and chest
6. Tail
7. Mane
8. Head, muzzle and ears

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