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Sculpture Club!
Throughout the bursary I have been working both on taking a piece through all stages of the casting & finishing process and intermittently working on Scartworks other commissions as and where I was needed. I’m not quite sure which part […]
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Welding, Fettling, Chasing
Reassembling – once the bronze was cleaned the next job was to grind off the spru’s and any inwanted bronze left over from the casting stages. The joinging edges of seperate pieces of the bronze were smoothed and bevelled slightly. […]
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Metal Casting
Lost wax – The ceramic shells were tidied up around the neck/opening. The piece was then placed upside down in kiln that allowed the wax to melt out. Curing – Once cooled & checked over for any cracks, these are […]
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Plaster & Wax Copies
We made a few plaster casts of the rocks which form part of a current work in progress of Hilary Jack’s, titled ‘Shadow of the Future’. I then took a test work though to the rest of the stages towards […]
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Making the Mould
The first few sessions at Scartworks I happened to be working on a commission for Hilary Jack. I delighted to be able to work on this… The first stage of investment casting is making the two-part silicone mould of each […]
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a little background info…..
I thought I would begin my blog with some background to the work through which I started exploration of casting processes and which sparked my interested in learning to cast in bronze… My proposal for the AN Professional Development Bursary […]