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Garden Reverie Sculpture #10
May 7th, 2013 | Posted in Sculpture | 
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Garden Reverie Sculpture #10
Sculpting the seat cushion is next. She’s almost finished! (See finished clay pics and promotion and bronze photos)
Chair back and chair legs will need to be fabricated at the foundry.
The back of the chair and chair legs will be added by the foundry so I needed to add registration marks to show the metal worker where to attach.
On a side point, here is the braid all finished. Also, you can see how I’ve added some wire under her arm to figure where the chair touches her arm and her back.
An indention under the arm marks where the chair back should go.
Smooth chair cushion will have texture added.
Her chair seat is now sculpted in clay and smooth. Next, the texture is added.
Registration marks are added to the chair seat.
Registration marks are in place as seen above. She is mounted on an oil base clay tube which will serve as a pour spout for the mold.
Funnel for reproduction mold is attached under the chair.
Impressionistic floral pattern is barely discernible and is a contrast to the tight and smooth modeling of her skin and dress.
Impressionistic floral pattern gives contrast to the smoothness of sculpture.
Next is the final step before molding. Yay! I will be sculpting her base, with the written note and bouquet of flowers.
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Looks good! I enjoy seeing all the steps. How did you get the legs and back off the chair? Were they separate to start with? I thought the chair was all one piece and strong to hold her up – didn’t see any separate armature under it to support the weight of the clay (maybe I missed it?)
Look again and you will see that the new chair is smooth in one of the photos and that’s because I sculpted a whole new chair seat.
The original chair was just a prop, rigid and strong, made from Magic sculpt and wire. I made the new chair seat in clay and designed it differently with a rim on the bottom edge. (tricky, tricky!)
How does the foundry do the chair? Do they have your model and just use wire or make it directly in the wax? I’ve been curious about this for a while, lol.