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| First polishing after the grinder, then sand blasted |
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Enjoy the creative process of Bronze sculptures. This is a journal of my personal experience making sculptures out of bronze. Many people are unfamilar with the process, it takes many steps and man hours to create such a piece. "Did you make that with your hands?!" Yes, that was a question I was asked. Growing up in an age of non-technology had its rewards, knowing how to use your hands.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Process of Casting
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| Bronze casting is very extensive |
Once an artist creates a clay sculpture, a wax mold is created. The ray on the front right is raw bronze before any sanding has taken place.
Friday, January 9, 2015
"Sculpture Works Inc" at http://www.gobronze.org/from.html has a wonderful web page that explains all the steps involved in creating a bronze sculpture.
Click the link " Go Bronze" and enjoy!
Go Bronze
Click the link " Go Bronze" and enjoy!
Go Bronze
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Today was a new experience, using the tool called the "Angle Grinder", it sawed off the spurs which were attached to the "Twins", they were poured together and are apart of the "Trio". Also, worked on cleaning up the wax molds of Ocean Dancer II and creating more sand on the base for the trio.
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| Ocean Dancer II |
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| Ocean Dancer II |
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| One of Three..."Peek-a-Boo" in the "Sand" |
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| The Twins were poured first, they will be "Swimming" above the Ray who is in the sand. |
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| "Tummy" |
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| Ready to be Sand Blasted, cleaned, polished and presented |
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| Different Angle |
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Between the Encinitas Street Banner and preparing to launch
an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign for Ocean Dancer II, it has been a very
busy New Years Week.
Creating the banner went pretty fast, because the design was
from my painting as well as the T-shirt design. The difficult part developed
when I purchased an acrylic painting pen to do the bronze outline. The rough
tip of the applicator took off the original paint, then the paint come out of
the applicator too watery, cleanup time. Secondly, Angel my kitty got her tail
in the lime green paint, cleanup time number two. Holding kitties’ tail was not
an easy task, wiping it with a paper towel caused the paint to get onto other
parts of her tail. Over to the sink we moved, tail in water and organic soap.
What a chore.
Third adventure, the black marker that was used to outline
the sign bled when applying the clear-coat UV protection. Interesting, the
surfer was painted with the same pen and it only bled slightly, but why? The
marker was acrylic for painting? Well, it’s finished!
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