Garden Reverie Sculpture #9Garden Reverie Sculpture #9 Sculpting flowers is something I really enjoy doing. Adding one to my garden lady seemed like a great thing to do. (See finished clay pics and promotion and bronze photos) At first I didn’t know how many flowers to add. Should I have a variety of flowers or just one? Didn’t really want to cover the wavy curls in the front of her hair or cover her ear. Played around with adding some clay petals to determine what mass I wanted in that area.
Decided to do a big single flower (nothing too busy looking), one that had a romantic, lacy feel to it. Because clay shrinks, the flower kept getting smaller, and so I had to add more to the edges in order to get it to be the right size.
When making ceramic roses, I can have the petals very thin and dainty. But for bronze, I have to thicken the petals so that the flower will de-mold well. Maintaining the dainty look can be tricky. I back fill behind the petals with clay, but kept the edges as thin as possible. Below is the finished rose.
Next, I worked on getting her dress finished out with ribbon ties and bow.
Wavy hair, flower, and ribbon ties…. that oughta do it! I love swirly, wavy anything! Lol.
If the neckline tie is too fine, the foundry workers might remove too much metal, and the tie would disappear. I continued to add more clay until it was just thick enough.
In order to work on her bodice area, I had to remove the arm once again.
Next I’ll work on her chair cushion. Thank you for your interest in following this sculpture to completion.
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Beautiful! Romantic realism at its best.
Beautiful! I’d be terrified to remove the arms and legs like you do. I suppose it’s a lot easier on a larger sculpture to do it without damaging the detail. If I’d done that on my little lady sculpture, I think her hands would’ve turned to mush (she may be fired by now – I’ll send you pics! I’ll see her Wednesday).
As I said before the flower is just the right touch, and thank you for demo.
Thank you everyone. Removing the appendages is so useful to really see all angles. Speaking of small sculpture, this one is now 15 1/2″ which includes the base. I never can figure out exactly how much shrinkage will be in casting and I had figured she’d be an inch taller. She looks petite at that size.