Stephani Stephenson on tue 20 apr 10
Plaster remains a useful sculptural medium.=3D20
Sculptors and students of sculpture have used plaster not only to make
molds ,but to make positives, either casting plaster positives or forming=
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it directly.
It is an affordable medium, especially compared to bronze.
for students working in plaster, who intend to work in bronze someday, it=
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useful to see the finished plaster sculpture as it might appear if it we=
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bronze.
it is also nice to have an inexpensive, fun way to replicate a metal pati=
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Robert Hess, an excellent sculptor and teacher, and professor of sculpt=
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at Willamette university, passed along this EZ , cheap formula for a fa=
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bronze patina.=3D20
It has been many years since i have used this, so some of the details are=
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bit hazy, but it is pretty simple:
use it on finished plaster.
materials needed
cheap bristle brushes, 1"- 3" or so
tempera paints : green, blue, yellow, red
shoe polish, can't remember if it was dark brown or black.=3D20
buffing cloth or brush
Technique:
paint the dried plaster with splotches of tempera paint of various color=
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it is important that you do this in a random, non-fussy manner. cover the=
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entire piece with the paint.
it is going to look like a very bright pop art project!
paint will dry pretty fast.
brush or wipe shoe polish on the entire piece, covering the tempera paint=
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let the shoe polish dry a bit , then buff it by hand.
you will no longer see the bright paint colors, per se, but they will
reflect light underneath the shoe polish, add complexity and variation,
which to the viewing eye, will resemble bronze, in a rather amazing way.=
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