Sculpture Moulds

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Shaman's Dream Abraham Anghik Rueben

I've been recently going through my collection of images of different projects over the past few months. The above photographs show a wax cast of a sculpture by Abraham Anghik Rueben. The mould which I made back in 2009 was off a soapstone original. Abraham's works are often extremely complex from a technical standpoint and require sophisticated moulding and wax working techniques.
The wax sculpture cast that is shown was produced back in July 2013 and is in the process of being cast in bronze by the Crucible Foundry. You can see more of Abraham's work at Kipling Galleries, Toronto.

At present, I've been making changes to the clay portrait that I'm working on as well catching up on other casting projects.
I'll be back soon. Cheers.

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Staying Ahead Part 2

I just wanted to do a quick post on this portrait head. I've been busy on several fronts so some projects like this commissioned clay portrait are taking more time but it does give me an opportunity to be a little more thorough. I'm still working out the hair and still evaluating the facial forms at this point of the process. It still a ways to go but I feel it's getting closer.
I'll be back soon. Have a great week.
Cheers.

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Skin Texture for Hyper/Photo Realistic Figure Sculpture

This is the early stages of skin texture being applied to the figure. The texture process as I've described in earlier posts is multistaged with layer upon layer of different sometimes extremely subtle tooling applied to the surface. I've found this approach best because it gives depth to the skin itself. It's been an up and down process so far but I feel I'm closer to completing the clay model than at any other time.
In the meantime, the studio continues to be busy with some major projects coming up in the Fall as well. I'll announce that in September.
I wish all my visitors,a great weekend. Cheers.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Portraits,Skulls and Figures

Sculpture Copyright Gino Cavecchioli 2013 Photo credit Art Di Lella 2013

Today's post focuses on some of the artists that I have worked with over the past few months.

The first picture is a portrait of Lincoln Alexander by the sculptor Gino Cavecchioli. Lincoln Alexander was a prominent politician from Hamilton Ontario who served in the federal cabinet as minister of labour in the Joe Clark government back in 1979.

Image Copyright Art Di Lella 2013

These are urethane casts of Bat and Parakeet skulls which I moulded and cast in a bone colour for Nan'Darach Designs in Calgary Alberta.

Image Copyright Art Di Lella 2013

Close up of the Parakeet skulls.

Image Copyright Art Di Lella 2013

A trio of sculptures by Taline Iskedjian which were being moulded in silicone and was later cast in bronze by MST Bronze.

Sculpture Copyright Bernice Schwartz 2013 Photo credit Art Di Lella 2013

A bonded or cold cast bronze cast which I made for the for the artist Bernice Schwartz.

Sculpture Copyright Bernice Schwartz 2013 Photo credit Art Di Lella 2013

Moulding the back of the juvenile Pan. The original is made in Terra Cotta

Sculpture Copyright Sid Golden 2013 Photo Credit Art Di Lella 2013

Another sculpture that was recently moulded and cast in bonded bronze. The sculptor is Sid Golden.

I'll be back soon. Have a great week.

Friday, 28 June 2013

Staying a Head, Portrait Sculpture

I'm finally back to blogging after a month long break. It's been busy in the studio so I have a back log of pictures to publish.
Today's post is about a different version of a portrait I had started back in the winter. This first version of this head was done in Monster Clay but I found this material very similar to wax so it was a bit slow to work up.
Instead I decided to use traditional water based clay for the bust. I find clay so much easier and faster to use.
Although the bust appears to be near the finishing stage, it isn't. There is much to do in regards to not only the hair but also the face as well.
For privacy reasons I can't show an image of the model herself to compare but I can say that the likeness is getting close.
I will be back after the weekend. Happy Canada Day!

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Head Transplant and Comparison Hyper Realistic Reconstructed Figure Final

Hello again.
I've just completed the "head transplant" of my Homo Erectus figure. The face is definitely different from the first as you can see from the above image. It's difficult for me at this point as to why there are differences. The skull used on the first head (head on the left) was produced by BoneClones. It's a carefully crafted model which is very close to the original but not an actual cast of the fossil skull whereas the new head was built over a cast of the actual fossil and so my question is: Are the differences between the skulls that significant or is it simply me having another attempt at essentially the same skull?
In the meantime, I will be starting final contouring and applying the skin texture to the new head as well as the rest of the body so there will be more posts on that too.

I'll be back soon. Have a great week.

Friday, 17 May 2013

Head Transplant Hyper Realistic Reconstructed Sculpture Homo Erectus/Ergaster Part 3

A short post today, I just wanted to show the process and progress of building the new head for my figure sculpture. I'm still sketching out the muscles and making connections so my "head transplant" will appear seamless. As you can see a face is starting to emerge but there's still a long way to go.
I'll be back soon. Have a great weekend.

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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Shaman's Dream Abraham Anghik Rueben

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Staying Ahead Part 2

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Skin Texture for Hyper/Photo Realistic Figure Sculpture

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Portraits,Skulls and Figures

Friday, 28 June 2013

Staying a Head, Portrait Sculpture

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Head Transplant and Comparison Hyper Realistic Reconstructed Figure Final

Friday, 17 May 2013

Head Transplant Hyper Realistic Reconstructed Sculpture Homo Erectus/Ergaster Part 3

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