~Henry Moore
Sharing sculptures made using lost wax casting this Art Thursday.
Liquid bronze being poured into the casting mold.
photo by Álfheiður Magnúsdóttir
Working at Kondagaon Bastar Workshop
photo shared by Sushilsakhuja
Indian Village Mother with five children
by Sushilsakhuja
Michael Jordan
by Omri and Julie Rotblatt-Amrany
photo by Wally Gobetz
William Shakespeare
designed by John Massey Rhind in 1907
photo by Wally Gobetz
Durga Dokra style. Dokra style is brass worked by the lost wax method of metal casting, pioneered by Adibasi metalsmiths of central India, but this Durga is actually made of clay.
photo by Lokendra Nath Roychoudhury
Moire copper ban, Chu, before 552 BC
Ashanti Lost Wax Casting in Krofofrom, Ghana
Bronze Sculpture: Lost Wax Casting on Get Up and DIY
Sculpture lesson plan from the National Park Service
The process shown in that video was something to behold. Very complicated and it looked it a *lot* could go wrong.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely made me appreciate what the metalsmiths did centuries ago.
I'll never look at that Michael Jordan sculpture (or the sculptures at any ballpark) the same way again!
My words could be exactly as the above commenter! I had no idea that the process was so involved. Watching the use of so many tools makes me wonder how artisans managed so many years ago, Tabatha. Thanks for the sculpture education!
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