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This portrait bust was commissioned by one of my patrons. He challenged me to reign in my more painterly sculpting style, and refine as much as I could. I switched from using my usual micro-crystalline to a wax\/clay hybrid called ‘Monster Clay’. It behaved very similarly, but the finish and texture was far less sticky and raw. The material allowed me to keep great detail and a matte surface very easily. The clay was almost flesh toned, which really made the piece lifelike when I was working on it. A very fun and educational project for me. The patron always pushes the envelope and takes me down new paths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are images of the finished bronze. The patron wanted a slate black patina to emulate bronze portraits from antiquity. Following those will be the pre-molded piece in Monster Clay. Such different presences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This portrait bust was commissioned by one of my patrons. He challenged me to reign in my more painterly sculpting style, and refine as much as I could. I switched from using my usual micro-crystalline to a wax\/clay hybrid called ‘Monster Clay’. It behaved very similarly, but the finish and texture was far less sticky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-659","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gageprentiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gageprentiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gageprentiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gageprentiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gageprentiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gageprentiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"http:\/\/www.gageprentiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gageprentiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}