Bronze Casting
I just recently took a bronze casting class at Pratt Fine Arts and was able to make some pretty awesome pieces. I made a bronze Iron Throne, a Batman bust and a cast of one of the first ears of corn that I ever grew. Each of them turned out pretty excellently!
I’d highly recommend taking this class or one similar to it. The instructors were awesome and make some really cool stuff. Eva’s instagram is here and Maggies instagram is here.
Below is a gallery of pictures detailing the process of creating a cast bronze sculpture using the lost wax method. Starting with a model that you want to cast you first make a silicone mold (with a plaster mother mold to hold it in place) of it, use that silicone mold to make a wax duplicate of the model, add sprues to ensure that the bronze flows easily into the model, encase that wax sprue system in a plaster and sand mold, burn out the wax and then pour molten bronze into the void and then finally clean up the pieces and add a patina to them.
