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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By a bronze sculptor in his workshop in Tamil Nadu, India. A school trip. Interesting.
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A short video clip of bronze being poured from a small lift out crucible as part of a bronze casting demonstration course. Short training Courses in sculpture and ceramic shell bronze casting are run at the A4A Art for Architecture studio foundry, in Scotland.
Visit http://www.bronzecasting.org.uk for more details about bronze casting
and the A4A Art for Architecture site at
http://www.a4a.com
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Lost & Foundry pouring bronze medallions for the centenial trail in Spokane, Wa.
Phosphorus copper shot added to increase fluidity.
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Video by Robert Clarke. A bronze casting demonstration held May 2008 at Glendarragh Studios, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
http://www.umha-aois.com
“Umha Aois” (Irish for “Bronze Age”) is an ongoing experimental project organised on a volunteer basis by a committee formed of artists & archaeologists. Through research and experimentation we are attempting to rediscover our Bronze Age ancestors’ casting methods, and in the process empower the artists involved with unique approaches to working in bronze.
This video demonstrates our discovered techniques to date, using bellows to power a small charcoal fired furnace, melting bronze in a hand made crucible, and casting into a clay mould. The mould is broken open afterwards to reveal a typical Irish Bronze Age axehead.
Please note that although we are striving for “authenticity”, some aspects are still in development, such as the lifting tongs, forged by Umha Aois member Mary Jane Verniere. Also we have not allowed “authenticity” to stifle any creative ideas, and as such we do not pretend that our methods reflect any specific time period or place, but rather we strive for a reproducible approach to working small scale bronze with ‘primitive’ technologies, taking the Irish Bronze Age as our main inspiration.
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