Great White in Heavenly Green . . .
Some 20 years ago I was commissioned to do a Great White Shark in marble. I did OK given the limited availability of good images of sharks at that time.
I always loved sharks, both as a diver and as a sculptor, and last fall I decide to revisit this powerful life form, this time in jade.
This undertaking brought to mind once more one of the virtues Confucius assigned to jade: ". . like truthfulness, (jade) it does not hide its faults, which only add to its beauty ".  It also reminded me the first thing I learned working with this stone, is that: You can't rush jade. If you do, it will expose your absence of presence and patience, shortcomings in your skills and lack of respect for the One from the Heaven.
I have also posted here sequence images of creating the shark from the 80lbs rough to the 15" long 8lbs completed.