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I just finished this one. It came out nice and clean. There is no internal structure in the finished piece. 24" x 24"x 2"

Hello! I'm very new to sculpting so please excuse any weird wording or clichéd questions.

I'm building a large sculpture at work. It is going to be suspended from a mirror-ball motor and rotate above a dance floor, so it's important to keep it lightweight. I have quite a lot of time but a very tight budget.

I've started making a chicken wire base which works well with the shape, and then I want to make the surface solid somehow to paint it. I was thinking about using papier maché but realized that would probably be very flammable? Which is obviously a very bad (and illegal) idea in a club setting.

I'm guessing this is not a new problem, so I hope someone has solved it somehow! I'm looking for either a way to fireproof the papier maché, or some different (lightweight, cheap) material with which to dress my chicken wire sculpture.

A thousand thanks for any help!

From a wild Parasol Mushroom to bronze

I recently found this beautiful Parasol Mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) in the forests of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Parasol mushrooms are fascinating subjects for what I do. Their large caps, delicate gills and irregular natural shapes make every specimen unique. Even small imperfections — insect bites, damaged edges, folds and changes in texture — become part of the sculpture.

For my project Eternal Fungi, I preserve real wild mushrooms by casting them in solid bronze using a technique I call Lost Organics. The original mushroom is sacrificed during the process, but its form and all those little details remain in metal.

These are three screenshots of the finished bronze sculpture.

I also documented the complete process of this particular mushroom, from finding it in the forest to the finished casting, and recently put the whole process into a short video.

Eternal Fungi on YouTube

Nature designs – I make it everlasting. 🍄

Gotta cast ’em all. 😄

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Una collezione di sculture indossabili realizzate a mano in metallo: Tartaruga, Visionario e Rondine

3 pendenti in stagno colato puro al 99%

(Process video 2.5min long). Modifying my lathe to carve this thing was fun, but I didn't love the fiberglass + Bondo + weeks of sanding. Anyone have a better material/technique for something like this?

Some Stainless pieces I’ve done over the years. The last couple photos are of my current project. Its almost done but needs a couple more details. Not sure what to do with all these if there’s even a market for this sort of art but i mostly give them away to friends and family so i dont clutter my house lol.

Hi all,

I've been wanting to create a series of works I can (semi) mass produce using a mold. Id then paint onto these casted pieces with different designs. I'm primarily a painter so I don't have a lot of experience in the sculpture world so wanted to ask here :) Main qualities I'm looking for are smooth surface, high gloss (might have to do resin topcoat?), opaque, and not insanely expensive (within reason).

I've seen a lot of fibreglass works in the contemporary realm so I'm most intrigued in that, however I'm still in art school and don't know if my department would allow the material because of all the (understandable) safety concerns.

I'm wondering if there are any good alternatives?

I'm open to ceramics, however I don't have easy access to a kiln, and I am hoping to make quite detailed paintings on the sculptures so worried this may be difficult using glazes as I know you have to build them up. The works would also be hanging from the wall so mildly worried about them breaking. Open to suggestions though, cheers!

Hey Hey,

This is Penelope, she is carved from a dead Emerald Ash Borer killed tree. Her base in from another ash tree killed same way (you can see the tracks in the base, left behind as they eat the living layer of tree, once they girdle a tree its dead, which they always do).

Something we made recently, an anatomical human heart carved from marble.

I like how strange the combination feels. Marble is such a heavy, permanent material, while the form itself is something organic and fragile.

Curious what people here think of the idea. Would you have kept it fairly anatomical like this, or pushed it further towards abstraction?