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Large yard sleeping Hand carved bronze lion statues with ball outside house

“As an artist, you never know when the next pay cheque is coming. One just hopes that something like this not only ignites awareness of the plight of lions but that it grows my brand and gets to the stage where I am recognised for honouring animals in bronze.” “I sculpt to honour the animal for what it is, not for what it was,” he says cryptically.   The lion population, he points out, has over the last 21 years dropped by over 41%.   “If this sculpture can act as a catalyst to develop awareness, it would be fantastic.”   Much goes into the creation of a piece like Dawn Patrol. The casting of it was facilitated by the Strand branch of Sculpture Casting Services, in the Western Cape, reportedly the largest, highly specialised fine art foundry in Africa.   But before it gets there, Little starts by crafting a small version, perfecting finer detail on pose and proportion. This was dramatically scaled up to an intermediate 2.4m version. Then, with the aid of the foundry, an armature or frame is built. A team of people then work on it. Some 500kg of a wax-based clay is applied to slowly create the detail and character of the piece. A mould is then made from this.