Artists and artworks seem to be far from the lives of our ordinary people, even if we visit several works through art exhibitions, we can not meet our curiosity about artists and their creative process, as the Network becomes more and more developed and popular, we can have the opportunity to see the painting process of many painters, and gradually understand and like painting.
I believe that the art of sculpture juxtaposed with the art of painting is still a mysterious work for many people, in order to answer everyone's doubts, let us go through a sculptor to understand how to turn the soil into a fine bronze sculpture artwork step by step.
Today, Xiao Dai wants to introduce this sculptor named Angela Mia De La Vega, her sculptures are often based on children, the creation of sculptures all over the world, for her, sculpture creation is a very happy and fulfilling thing, she hopes to express the feeling of love and happiness through her own sculptures, in order to awaken the audience's emotions.
Each stage and process of creating such a sculpture is very special for Angela Mia De La Vega, this sculpture is like a baby falling to the ground, by using enough patience to help the baby grow rapidly, until the moment the work is signed, it will give people an indescribable sense of accomplishment.
Angela Mia De La Vega likes to create sculpture, but also likes to use their own way to popularize sculpture, so that more people understand it, so Angela Mia De La Vega recorded her many years of sculpture creation experience, let's take a look.
Step 1: Model Selection
The model determines the final presentation of this sculpture, and the sculptor often chooses a real model, by taking photos from multiple angles and recording the data of the model's body parts with a tape measure, which needs to be very precise.
Step 2: Build the framework
Human sculpture, like humans, needs to be supported by a skeleton, and small sculptures, the sculptor will choose to use aluminum thread to make. Large sculptures will use wood to make a frame, and then add clay to the skeleton of the sculpture, this step should be as similar as possible to the model, when making a human model, the sculptor will first make the model nude and then add clothes to the model, such a production process will make the sculpture more vivid and natural.
Step 3: Carving clay
After the approximate frame is made, it is necessary to refine the clay sculpture, and this step of the sculpture work will be divided into multiple parts, brushing the liquid silicone on these parts, waiting until the silicone is dry, and then repeating several times until the thickness of the silica gel reaches 2 or 3 centimeters.
Step 4: Make the mold
There are many materials for making molds, generally sculptors will use plaster, glass fibers or plastic, the molds produced at this time are mother molds, the mother mold is made of covering clay sculpture works, and after the mother mold is completed, the clay sculpture works will be taken out. The sculptor will then pour the melted wax into the mother mold, and when the wax has cooled, the wax sculpture or sculptural part can be removed.
Step 5: Plaster statue
After the wax figure is made, the wax figure needs to be placed in a cylinder filled with plaster liquid, and the wax figure is filled with plaster and then immediately put into a container filled with glass powder or ceramic powder, waiting for the plaster to dry, this process needs to be repeated 5 to 7 times, which takes about 2 weeks.
Step 6: Melt the wax and inject copper
After the wax figure covered with gypsum is made, the wax needs to be melted, and we will get this final mold that can be used, heat the bronze to the melting point, pour it into the mold, and place it until it cools and solidifies.
Step 7: Sculpture processing
After the bronze cools and solidifies, we knock the plaster down, weld the bronze sculptures that decompose into parts together, grind the weld seams flat and then blast them.
Step 8: Add green
After the bronze statue is made, it is necessary to heat it with fire and spray different acids on the surface of the bronze statue to chemically react with the bronze.
Step 9: Production complete
The resulting bronze statue also needs to be carefully polished and handled, and care needs to be taken at every step of the process.
Although bronze sculptures take only nine steps to make, the time it takes to go from the birth of the idea to the final completion often needs to be calculated in months. Angela Mia De la Vega's bronze sculpture steps are not unique, different artists and different forms of sculpture will vary in the production process, but each sculpture condenses a lot of the sculptor's efforts.