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idk, but i hope you like the star i gave you!!!!!!!!!!

does anyone know of an artist in Houston Texas that can make a die cast in bronze of a product? we need to make it asap

http://www.creativesculpture.com/

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Edd Hayes

Phone: 281-350-2502
eddhayes@aol.com
www.eddhayes.com

try them chica!

This is the 9th investment that has been poured for a commission I have been working on for the past year. It is a 3/4 life sized sculpture of a cougar that will be installed in the atrium of New Prairie Middle School in New Carlisle, IN.

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I want to have them cast by a foundry that is not too expensive, and near the Boston area. If that is not possible, is there any other way to cast them? What materials would I need, and how would I make the molds? I am working with middle school students ages 12-13.

this is a tough question. i dont know if you will get many replies so i’m going to give you my thoughts altho this is not really my area… i hope you get a better response than this later on…

i suspect casting those pieces may be an expensive project.

look in the phone book or online or both for foundries in your area – private and commercial and at schools/universites. you’ll probably have to call them and ask if they’ll do something like what you are wanting.

i suppose it’s possible that some foundry in the country "might" cast on demand – for a fee. there may be significant guidelines to it tho… you can only try and see what you can come up with. even mailing these becomes an expense and then return shipping as well…

i suspect if someone will do it, it may not be cheap. ask if there is someone there at the foundry who would be willing to guide you through the process.

in case you do not find a foundry willing to accommodate you in the way you’d like (which is a cool idea), you might ask if they’d be willing to give your students a tour – that in itself might be an eye-opener for them to see how the process would be completed if it were to be done… with that age group it might be challenging. you might even consider a number of small groups one at a time if a tour is available and you opt for this option.

there probably are less expensive ways to cast these in some other material. however it might also be easier to know how you will do this end of the project before you start. that way you’ll be able to work in appropriate ways at the get-go (from the beginning).

i hope you get to do this exactly as you’d like. that would be awesome. it would be terrific for these students to have their work for ever cast in a great metal, imo.

good on you for trying. good luck.

If bronze has a density of 7.8g/mL , how many ounces of bronze are needed in the preparation of the bronze figure?

225 mL x 7.8 g/mL x 1 oz/28.3 g =

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David F. Starr presents: Re+Myth. Footage from the Exhibition and commentary from the Artist.

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I need to make faux bronzes of my chest and neck for jewelry displays .I want to be able to make a mold to cast the busts and then do the faux bronzing.

You need to make sure that you understand what an undercut is. You can’t have any, otherwise you are not going to get your form out of your mold.

The easiest is going to be to make a mold from plaster bandages and then cast plaster into this. Look at instructions for pregnancy molds, they are all over the web. You also can buy kits for this purpose, though they are usually more expensive than just buying plaster bandages, but they come with instructions. Search for belly casting kits.

There are also plenty mold making tutorials on the web or go to the library and check a book out. The whole process is too long to really get described here.

Castubg bronze sculpture at WVC

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Due to numerous requests from admirers, I’ve decided to have my impressive and alluring b’zooms replicated and thus immortalized for all time. From a Plaster of Paris mould I intend to have a limited number of busty busts created in gleaming bronze. However the practicalities of the matter are what I need advice on here – i.e; how exactly to create the original mould?
I had toyed with the idea of hiring a disused grain silo, or similarly deep container – filling the thing with liquid plaster and then quickly dunking my mammaries in before it sets hard. However, I’m not sure I’d be able to hold myself steady by only my fingers and toes – in a downward facing starfish pose over the neck of the container – for the required length of time. And then, of course, if I succeeded with this plan, the end product – when correctly positioned front-facing – would be a pair of enormous bronze baps jutting straight ahead like two giant be-tasselled javelins. Would my lovers really appreciate quite such a ramrod portrayal of my soft feminine charms?
I’m in a tizz! Have any of you the necessary engineering nous to help pull off this artistic feat? If you are willing to donate your services you will surely be contributing to a work of great historical and erotic significance and, moreover, I will give you a right good seeing to.
Plans and blueprints to be submitted within the next 3 days.
Good luck to you all!

I’m not sure this would be a good idea Hattie. Have you no consideration for others? Did you not think about the countless thousands upon thousands of fellow females who would feel inferior having seen your magnificent bumps? Many a now happy woman would become depressed and negated knowing that your magnificent specimens are on show for all to see.

Nonetheless, to answer your question, if you really must go ahead with this callous plan I think BE’s suggestion of the jacuzzi sounds rather good (although I doubt that my nephew will allow you near his gin – perhaps some other beverage instead?? Meths perhaps?)

Oh, and make sure I receive an official invitation to the unveiling, one wouldn’t want to miss such a presideous occasion.

I am a full time artist mainly doing commisioned work of equestrian subjects . I would like to start sculpting . What clay should I use that would be suitable for casting .Any other helpful advice would be very much appreciated .
I really cannot understand why people have put thumbs down to all these excellant answers.
I live in the middle of the CZ countryside and forget artists friends … friends are very very difficult to come by here .
I want to make small sculpturs suitable for peoples drawing rooms …. I feel all you arty people squirm !!! but we working artists must eat and I would love to have a car !!! I love my work you understand

if you are a full time artists don’t you have a couple of sculptor friends who can get you started?
There is no clay which is suitable for casting directly. But you can take any clay if you afterwards make a mold of your sculpture. The final material has to be wax or something else which can burn out. Though a foundry will make a mold and a wax from your sculpture for you, but they’ll charge you extra for it. It is not a good idea to have solid bronze of more than about an inch. If you do you are likely to get shrinkage artefacts and it’s also expensive. So anything larger you have to make a mold of anyway.
If you want to model directly, the best waxes are microcrystallines waxes. You can get them in different hardness, the softer ones model pretty much like clay once they are handwarm. There is also something called sculpt-a-wax which has nice properties for hand modeling. they mail you free (tiny) samples so you can figure out which variant you prefer before you order a large amount.
Unless you want to leave most of the work to the foundry, you could take a foundry class and learn about the process. Maybe a university in your area offers one. Use your art connections to find out. Go to the library and check out some books. You didn’t learn drawing in a day either…
As for metal, the only frequently used cheaper metal is aluminum, but the palette for patination is much more limited compared to bronze. Iron or steel require higher temperatures than art foundries usually do. But something made from alu will probably sell for clearly less than bronze but will be just as much work to do, so you should consider that.