Bronze Poodle Sculpture

bronze dog sculpture

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

First layer of clay for the dog armature

Tracker (poodle) gets his first coat of clay. Two to three layers will follow in order to capture the poodle's fur texture.

The first image shows where the rods became embedded into the legs. Molted clay was allowed to saturate the groove and rod area.

clay poodle Aluminum rods and styrofoam are coated with modeling clayI used a crock pot to melt my bricks of NSP hard Chavant modeling clay. The clay was applied using a brush and spatula.

clay poodle Aluminum rods and styrofoam are coated with modeling clayHere you can see where I reattached the head to the body. A 3/4" x 12" pipe was used to join the two sections. Clay was then brushed on to fuse the sections.

clay poodle Aluminum rods and styrofoam are coated with modeling clayThe additional layers of clay will fill in the areas that do not look quite right. For instance the rib and neck sections.

clay poodle Aluminum rods and styrofoam are coated with modeling clay
The ears and jaw areas will also be revisited.

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