The $300,000 sculpture was completed in early January and commissioned by a cryptocurrency group.<\/p>\n
ZANESVILLE, Ohio \u2014 You may have seen his work outside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium or inside the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n
Now, sculptor Alan Cottrill\u2019s latest creation \u2014 a 15-foot, gold-leafed bronze statue of President Donald Trump \u2014 is sitting inside his Zanesville foundry, awaiting its permanent home and final payment.<\/p>\n
The $300,000 sculpture was completed in early January and commissioned by a cryptocurrency group.<\/p>\n
Cottrill said the group has made partial payments but still owes thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n
The group said it stands by its commitment to the sculptor and plans to make the final payment.<\/p>\n
Inside the bronze foundry, Cottrill and his team work seven days a week.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy job is making bronze statues,\u201d Cottrill said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have done 400 or so life-size or larger figures,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll do it ’til I drop.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Trump statue weighs about 2,400 pounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh geez, that\u2019s bronze,\u201d Cottrill said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hounded away on this, had it done start to finish,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The sculpture, which rests on its back inside the studio, presented unique artistic challenges \u2014 particularly when it came to capturing Trump\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis hair \u2014 how do you get the wispy bits of hair?\u201d Cottrill said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you can\u2019t cast fine hair and wispies, so I had to make it thicker than it was and still give a sense of his hair,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cottrill said he is waiting for an official unveiling date at Trump National Doral in Florida and said the president is expected to attend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis gold leaf in the Florida sun \u2014 it\u2019s just going to be brilliant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
While he said he has enjoyed working on the project, Cottrill acknowledged the statue has taken up significant space in his studio.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to get it the hell out of here because we need this space,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
For now, the statue remains in Zanesville \u2014 complete, but not yet installed.<\/p>\n
10TV reached out to the Trump Organization for comment and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $300,000 sculpture was completed in early January and commissioned by a cryptocurrency group. ZANESVILLE, Ohio \u2014 You…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-465432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}