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Hot Metal Casting: Lost Wax Process

Perry_Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder_2008Mission: (Project Description)

Hollow lost wax casting method: A unique wax pattern will be developed using plaster and rubber molds. The wax pattern will be taken through the “Lost Wax Process” to create a unique bronze or aluminum sculpture with a patina or alternative finishing method. Individual students have a choice to cast a wax form presented from a previous course or to create a new hollow casting for this project. A hollow lost wax casting method is the only technical criteria. If a new casting is to be produced, you are encouraged to create a composition and concept that pushes the envelope of this level course.

This project will challenge and further introduce the student to the processes of casting metal. A traditional investment material of plaster, silica sand and silica flour will be used for this project. The student should show an understanding of the methods listed below. A metal form will be cast and finished by the student.

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Sculpting the Human Head/Body

Fickle_72Prologue:

The bust has been used for centuries to honor, memorialize, characterize, and distinguish identities of culture. As a social political tool, as many forms of art have been and will be, the face and bust have been used to provide an instrument of social control and propaganda. For ourselves and prosperity art through human form has been a link to the identities of personalities of the past. History, mythology, and other stories are hinted at, and revealed by these simple yet complex forms. We have a compulsive draw towards the replication of identity through various mediums, to empower a material to conjure a sense of preservation.

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Scratch Block Molds – Casting Forms in High Relief

Sheen Square72In this project the student will learn the process of developing a “Relief” metal casting using a Scratch Block, a sand block bonded with resin, to create a negative or inverse of a final relief sculpture. Metal will be poured into the scratch block to create the finished form. The metal relief sculpture will be finished, and chased using metal working tools. Then dioxide and wax will be applied to the surface. And finally, a strategy must be developed to display the relief form.

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