Bronze Sculpture with Stand

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The "with stand" on the title of this post is important!  My first bronze sculpture ran the risk of lying on its side for eons...as figuring out a base that would look fine, support the weight, and then figure out how attach sculpture to it was a bit daunting.

A dear friend, an artist, took me step by step through the process, from screw hole making (technical term escapes me), hole drilling, hole placement (nifty "trick'), and patina.  I now have a sturdy

base AND as sculpture that means something to me. All the better that it has a base made from him

Cut Out Saying Cards

Room for improvement, but borrowing idea to translate for card.  Would work better with bright pop of color underneath, and perhaps a free hand technique (as i saw in original) for the script. The saying on the first card came from conversation with "help desk" for new laptop.  I made a rather funny, though unintentional, choice of words in reading my serial number to the help desk person.  After fits of laughter, he related that he has heard plenty goofy references...."3 as in 3," and the one I really cracked up about "G as in Jesus."

Framing the Sky



The sky was walking across the stage here it seems....though of course, the stage of sky is much broader than these wings.

Don't exactly know why the yellow showed up in the building in both color and b/w setting.

Bronze Sculpture

Part of a larger piece, cast as a test for the new foundry. Bronze.

My first bronze sculpture

My first sculpture in bronze!  Yes, it has a meaning. Is not finished yet...need to figure out base (will be very simple plane...dark wood or bronze), as well as decide if will patina.

Acyrlic Paint Skin Treatment

Not necessarily recommended, but it did leave a dandy pedicure effect.  A side project in the making of a backpack. Complete with "stick out " piece that would give wearer indication of getting too close to "something."

Sculpture in Progress

Liberated bronze from casting apparatus. This was among my first attempts at wax for bronze....joined people. Has taken a long time to get cast.  Actually, my next post will be my first sculpture actually cast, which I believe is my "best" so far as it has a more personal "learning" meaning to me.  These "joined" people will be removed from the sprues next week.

The "8s" in the last photo were actually my first shapes I kept, but not the first cast.   Hack saw and angle grinder. Now for sandblast and patina. .