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Man of the Future: Step 12

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Hello again and thank you for joining me for this Artist’s Studio.
This installment is my favorite part to see in person- “metal pour”. Last time, the wax was melted out of the ceramic shells, creating a mold for the bronze to be poured into. Now, the shells are put on a sand covered cart which is wheeled into a large oven to pre-heat them before pouring in the molten bronze. They are heated to around the same 2000° F tempurature as the molten bronze to prevent cooling of the bronze as it flows through the shell.

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Then they come out and the bronze is poured into the hot shells through the “cups” and “sprues” which are now hollow.

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After the bronze cools, most of the ceramic is chipped off with hammers and air chisels.

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The cups and sprues (now solid bronze) are cut off to be recycled, and the rest of the ceramic will be sandblasted off before assembly begins.

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2 Responses to “Man of the Future: Step 12”

  1. Gordon van Vliet Says:
    March 7th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    I find it wonderful to watch your creation process unfold. I look forward to see the final piece. Thank you for all your effort to document and share this process.

  2. Karl Says:
    March 8th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    Thank you Gordon, I appreciate your comment

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About Bryan Larsen ~

Bryan Larsen

"I was born on February 12, 1975, and have been drawing as long as I can remember. By the time I was in high school, I knew I wanted to be an artist, although at the time I didn't have a clear idea of how exactly I would use my talents to make a living.

"As I continued studying art, I began to suspect that fine visual art was dead. No one seemed interested in teaching students how to draw well, or paint well. More often than not, my own skills exceeded those of my instructors.

"The only field left that seemed to require good drawing, painting, and compositional skills was illustration, and therefore I began studying illustration at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. I became even more convinced that I had made the right decision in staying away from fine art as I endured course after course of required "drawing" and "painting" classes in which instructors required me to draw with "less focus", or use ridiculous materials such as shellac, glue, sand, salt, etc.

"My second year at Utah State, I met Damon Denys. In discussing Art with him I realized that there were other people who believed that technique and subject matter were indispensable components of any work of art. I then decided that I would work to develop my own painting skills with the purpose of creating artwork that I considered worthy of being called Fine Art.

"Since that time, I have studied on my own: Drawing from live models to learn the human form, studying proper painting techniques from any source I could find ample reason to trust, and developing a philosophy of Art based on reason, and life on earth.

"My goal is to portray the heroic and romantic in human nature and human achievement in a realistic style and a modern setting. I place particular emphasis on composition, technique, realistic detail, proper craftsmanship and consistency of style."