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11/22/2009 -
Turning Angel Sculpture
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Charlotte Smith, an art student in the United Kingdom, is seeking information about the Turning Angel to go along with a sculpture she is dong. Can anyone help her?
I am a 3rd year degree student in the UK doing a project based around The Turning Angel. The theatre designer I went to for this asked me to make a statue based on the Turning Angel and cast one to look like white marble and one to look like bronze. I'm doing a model making degree and as one of my final projects we were asked to get an external brief, so I am trying to find as much info as possible, would you be able to tell me who made the statue?
I was given the brief by a theatre prop designer. It was to create a statue based on the Natchez Turning Angel and duplicate it, one has to look like white marble and one has to look like bronze.
The sculpt is going to be 600 mm high and made out of W.E.D clay; a type of water-based clay that doesn't dry out quickly. I will sculpt and mould the wings separately to make it easier for me to work.
The 1st image you have is the armature for the sculpt. It is made from aluminum and florists wire, I then covered it in expanding foam (which I discovered is horrible messy stuff to use, but is great for filling gaps and bulking out the main shape to keep the weight down).
Finally, I applied the clay and began to form the shape. The other images I’ve sent show the sculpt as it progresses over a few weeks.
The whole sculpt took 5 weeks, from making the armature to completing the figure. I now have 3 weeks in which to mould and cast both the body and wings and fit them together.
I'll send you some more images once I make significant progress. |
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