{"id":2095,"date":"2023-04-14T01:09:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/?page_id=2095"},"modified":"2024-06-10T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T13:41:55","slug":"mary-our-lady-expectant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/mary-our-lady-expectant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary (Our Lady Expectant)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This sculpture will be completed in a cast material and finished in polychrome from a garden at a residence in DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Painted and varnished!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beginning the finishing! Painting on Binder (Fusion I.A. Binder). This will seal the surface in preparation for gesso.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Suface sanded and patched. All ready for painting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Right out of the mold!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Casting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beginning Casting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Diassembled Pieces of the Mother Mold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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De-Molding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mother Mold Completed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adding the Mother Mold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First step of molding making – silicone rubber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Finishing up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Current status – Fleshing out the hair and jar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fleshing out the face, building the jar, and developing the body and clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the month of August, I am away on a contract labor job, so Our Lady is well-wrapped so that she won’t dry out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the month of August, I am away on a contract labor job, so Our Lady is well-wrapped so that she won’t dry out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our Lady at the end of July.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Refining the portrait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adding volume to the clothing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Suggesting the clothing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Developing the form.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The armature now set up and adding clay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The armature assembled on the turn table and ready for clay to be added.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Working drawings at full size. These will be used to make the armature to the correct dimensions and to design the clay model.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Armature from previous project. This will be disassembled and used to make the armature for this project, along with new wire to be ordered.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here is the small model of the piece to be sculpted and cast in resin-reinforced gypsum and finished in a manner to be determined.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This sculpture will be completed in a cast material and finished in polychrome from a garden at a residence in DC. Current status – Fleshing out the hair and jar. Fleshing out the face, building the jar, and developing the body and clothing. For the month of August, I am away on a contract labor job, so Our Lady is… Continue reading “Mary (Our Lady Expectant)”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2095"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2095\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}