Making of Medusa

This is the sculpture and the first stages of paint for a painting of Medusa I am working on. This painting is taking Medusa and seeing her as a victim. The first image is air dry terracotta base sculpture. The second and third picture are the first applications of paint. I was very inspired by this amazing sculpture artist Steve Gibson, you van view his work at http://stevegibson.eu/, absolutely amazing work, but I really wanted the painterly look for this sculpture, it is supposed to look as if Medusa is caught in the painting and she is trying to escape, so essentially a painting coming to life.