First a question concerning the forum: , 'but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again"
What does that mean? Of course I do not visit the forum each day, but I am often here. To look around, viewing the work of other user and try to get orientation.
Sure, I do not write under every work - do you mean I should write more? Get contacts to other users?
I feel new and do not dare to write too many.
But now: Thanks for your proposals. Und yes, the statue is not yet completed. What do you mean, what all happend with my trials, including an unintentional delete . It must become more perspektiv, it is still like a flat relief. Which is not my intention and the light has to be stressed like you proposed.
But the real background is not fitting, boring anyhow.
There must not be any object around it.
Imagine: I made the photo maybe 10 years ago < with a cell-phone: Sony Ericson. It was not yet a smart. And the whether was grey without sun that day.
It was during a pause of a harpsichord-concert my son played in "Schloß Molsdorf" , and I did not have a lot of time to make more pictures.
Some years later I was again there, it is near to here, and did not find again this statue.
In Google-pictures I found the complete statue, not broken but only the backside, it is "looking" in direction of the castle.
And not to recognize whether it was before I made the picture or later.
It is placed far away from the castle and alone in a large weed, nothing else.
Now it is winter, the sandstone-statues are all protected/covered because it is often very cold, frosty, and snowy here.
Already now it is -10° C at night and snow. Sandstone does not stand that.
For sure I can recognize that the the beast has a head of a lion, fixed on the part of the leg/knee, which damaged on my photo is, looking up to the face of the hero, like a dog... but it is covered with fish scales? I recognized the statue by the nod of the head. His left arm is in the back holding a draped long fabric...It is all peculiar which is still fascinating for me. I do not know why, can not explain it. The motive of a hero, killing a beast ist so often in myths, legends: Gilgamesh, killing Shumbabwa, the beast which is protecting the cedar-forests of Lebanon, Daniel into a pit fighting against a lion, St. Georgs, Siegfried killing the "Lindworm", and at least the ridiculous Tamino into the opera "The Magic flute" by Mozart. Mozart made a joke of it: Tamino admiring a picture of Tamina, in who he fell in love with, falling unconscious while viewing a monster, the Lindworm, three little boys or three little angel must kill ist for the poor man with scissors
In spring I will travel to Molsdorf and search for the statue.
But better I finish this BEFORE I see it - maybe - in reality.
I have time. I must not have finishid it a short time.
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year