Daphne Finishes and becomes a poster and Patinas on bronze

 Daphne is finally coming to a finish, just a few clean up areas to do, this is a shot of the interior, I'm using a die grinder to smooth out some areas.

 With her finish I have decided to make a poster of her.  I liked this image so much (this is from an earlier post) I thought it would make a cool poster on Zazzle, a print on demand company. It measures 16 x 20 inches.

 I have also created a 2013 calendar showing my works in stone, paper and bronze. The address to buy the poster is- http://www.zazzle.com/megwhitesculpture+gifts

 And now for something completely different.  This is a life-size woman's face I created from wax and had sandcast years ago.
The sandcast process is very different from the lost wax process and is much simpler.  It involves sand acting as a sort of mold (it is pressed on either side of the original)  there can be no undercuts and the original must be fairly thin and uniform - this face (formed from Wax) is about 1/2" thick.

 The face then gets a light ferric patina. It is a chemical sprayed onto the bronze to give it a light gold color.  I will then apply a wax while it is still hot to seal the bronze and protect the color of the patina.

 This is a wolf head also created using the lost wax process.  Both these pieces were created a few years back and then I got busy and never went on to add a patina.  This is the natural patina that the wolf took on.

 This is how he looked after I sandblasted him. Sandblasting is a way to clean bronze of old patina prior to applying a new patina.

 Again the torch and some ferric is sprayed onto the bronze, next a coat of wax. Both the woman and wolf face will be for sale on ebay in the near future.

 I am experimenting with a patina for my sculpture Flight.  The figure is in light ferric, the uprights supporting him are in a powder blue patina.  I wanted the figure to have a feeling of being suspended and I think the contrasting colors of patina help give that feeling.

 And speaking of flight, I got this picture of an immature bald eagle soaring overhead.  At first I thought it was a vulture and I zoomed in and snapped this photo and was pleasantly surprised...

And this was a surprise - a bobcat in broad daylight and I had a camera with me, what luck!