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Teaching Kids Art AppreciationHow are bronze sculptures made?Teaching kids art appreciation lessons doesn't have to be confined to a classroom or art museum. We took a trip to a local artist's studio to see how bronze sculptures are made. Then we visited a local park to see the statue that we learned about. When you are looking for art activities and lesson ideas for your kids, don't forget that art galleries aren't the only places to get an art education. 
We found out how to make a bronze sculpture at Wesley Wofford's studio. Wesley has worked on many movie sets and does figurative sculpture. He does alot of commissoned work cast mostly in bronze and it is just amazing to see the "behind the scenes" process. Homeschool field trips...I love them!
Check out my instantly downloadable e-book about field trip planning written especially for homeschoolers! ---->>>>> To make a bronze sculpture, you start with a small clay model that you turn into a styrofoam model.
Cut the styrofoam into pieces and enlarge it's shape on the wall. Cut it out of even bigger styrofoam pieces and cover it with clay. 
This big clay covered styrofoam piece gets cut up so you can make a flexible mold. This flexible mold gets covered with a hard mold. 
Cast the pieces in bronze and weld them together for the finished product you see above. It's amazing how expensive art pieces are. This particular one is priced at $32,000. It seems expensive until you find out that it took alot of material and nearly a year for him to complete this piece. Once we were finished with our tour, the kids got to try their hand with the modeling clay.
It wasn't as easy as it looked! As much as I'd like to be good at teaching kids art lessons, I couldn't have written something like this if I tried. :-) Leave the Teaching Kids Art Appreciation page and return to the HBD Home page |
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