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I am in process of building a in depth strategy board game. I have a
casting company to make my pieces, but it needs prototype sculptings to make its moldings. Right now I have need of six different...
The piece you are refering to is a Seward Johnson piece. I recomend you contact the Johnson Atelier (609) 890 7777 or the Grounds for Sculpture (?) for more info. Forgive my editorial input, but I thi...
Casteline or different types of sculpting wax are popular for bronze pieces which use loss wax molds where the wax sculpture is covered in plaster and then the piece is heated till the wax is all gone...
...a damp sponge. Of course, if you want a textured surface, you can get that too. Why not do a little test piece before going on with your real piece?...
Hmm, good question for artists who work with clay - 'what's the difference between a piece in ceramics, and a piece in clay?' $X? On the other hand - there are some fine journals with &...
...ast in clay (ceramic). Looks like there will need to be multiple parts.
An alternative is to cast it in pieces and then assemble them. (make a mold of each piece, in other words)
The surface texture...
Basically you make a 'master piece' in the material of your choice (plaster, clay, etc), and take a mould from this. You then take the piece out of the mould which you fill with molten wax, ...
...all to give a soft wash, and an incandescent arm lamp to move around to show me shadows. The impact of a piece can really change according to the shadows. I like to consider how the piece might be dis...
True! I made a pair of tongs for handling large round stock and pipe. The jaws are two pieces of angle TIG welded to two curved pieces of plate cut out with a plasma cutter. These are TIG'd to th...
If production cost is your main concern just cast the piece in polymer plaster/polymer concrete/sandfilled resin and then spray paint bronze, gold, copper or anything else you want. Get some colored s...
Greetings, I cast a black pigmented PU piece, which I then sanded. The ever ubiquitous bubbles, annoying enough in their own right, then became receptacles for the white sanding dust, which I have bee...
soft stone. A two piece mold with a funnel to pour the metal into the carving which was bound together. The metal was then poured into the mold. Upon cooling the cast piece was 'pulled' from...
...ooking for... You could try something like sculpy that bakes in a home over. Could be costly for a large piece though... Sculpy can be baked with an armature or other supporting structures inside it s...
...rd to find something that will actively react. The best is probably hot soap and water. Can you soak the piece overnight (I use those kiddies wading pools for soaking big objects) and then the next da...
Thanks for responses Andrew, you're doubtless right but it did start kind of experimental. The piece was constructed by folding geometric nets and as an extension from folding card on a small sca...
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I had just recently seen something quite unusual and though it may not have been a museum quality piece I thought it was an incredible piece of work nevertheless. A blind artist made some anima...
...heir great catalog, but have not had a chance to order yet. Still working in clay squeeze molds, plaster piece molds and waiting to try gelatine molding - born in the wrong century I guess! Ok - I mak...
...are stores) on bisque-fired sculptures which had split apart during firing. After using epoxy to put the pieces back together, you can fill in the gaps with Fix-all, smooth or resculpt edges with fing...
...ctures. Its 4 feet in diameter and weighs about 105 lbs. cast ready to hang. You can barley see the same piece in the right hand side of the picture that looks like a gallery photo. In this photo its ...
this is an old posting, if you go to the website you see that the piece has been made already and is being marketed.
... idea. Am I and artist ?
Question? If I see a picture of a sculpture then change it and create a new piece from that can I call it my own?
Question? If I make a exact copy of some piece of scu...
Is my Maurice piece erotic enough for you?
My 'burner' is made from: one 9 x 1 1/2' piece of thin walled metal pipe, one gas barbeque fitting, one 1 1/2' pvc pipe fitting [for air control] a cast iron fitting on the hot end...
...d edges is the challenge, as they thin down to no more than 1/8" at the edge. It's the most fragile piece I build and the miracle is getting it all the way to the kiln....
I have a similar plaster wall art piece. Mine is a Roman scene. It is about 5 ft wide and 3-3 1/2 ft. tall. The Harold Studios Inc coin is in the lower right corner. The original owner had it in his h...
...ne torch it (fast way) or cook it over a candle or heat element.
My favorite finish for cast plaster pieces is 'antique'. Dilute the orange shellac and brush on the piece with a dabbing ...
another option is to seal the finished plaster piece. then paint it with an electolye like silver nitrate. Then you can electroplate the surface of the piece with copper or brass. This will result in ...
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