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The process of creating this
beautiful statue is known as Bronze Art Casting. This process
uses the ancient lost wax process and has been around for
thousands of years. This labor intensive process takes several
weeks from start to finish. Bronze is an alloy. It is a mixture
of 95% copper, plus small amounts of lead, tin, zinc, and
silicon. |
The artist creates
an original sculpture from either clay or wax. A rubber mold is
made of the original sculpture by applying numerous coats of
rubber over the original. After this is cured, it is removed.
This new rubber mold will show every exact detail from the
original. This mold is used to create duplicates of the original
design. The rubber mold is filled with molten wax. After the wax
cools, the rubber mold is removed from the wax. We now have a
wax duplicate of the sculpture. |
