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Figurative CERAMIC & BRONZE Narrative Sculpture: Ceramic & Bronze by Merry Arttoones, M.F.A. Art Toones
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Figures in Clay; Figures in Bronze; Ceramic Sculpture; Clay Sculpture; Paper Clay; Pottery for sale, Ceramic Artist; Ceramics, Famous Sculptures; Cartoons? No Artoons; Clay Sculptures; Clay Artist; Just plain Artist; definitely not a Hobbyist; Comedy, Tragedy; Postmodern Nightmare; Matrix escape artist; White Rabbit conundrums; Alice in Wonderland common sense; storytelling in clay; Magpie rants; Beyond Whimsy; Orwell Fan; Lewis Carroll Fan; Baudrillard Philosophy NOT; Existentialist NOT; Centrist? Maybe; Art Collectors Dream; Commonground; Uncommon Ground; Visions in Clay award winner; Las Cruces Art Museum darling ; NCECA questioner; Ayn Rand Fan; Infamous Artist; Comedic Relief; Figurative sculpture; Horse Lover; runner; chuckles; flying pig; Statue of Liberty; Lost Wax cast bronze; P’clay; paperclay; postmodern NOT; truth teller; comedian. Stand up comic; hope; lost wax bronze casting. |
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The shell mold Grinding off the bottom The dark ring is the wax So the wax can burn out |
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I thought I’d do some nice little 12” bronze figures...that was the plan nice little sellable size bronze figures.. HAA! The muse had other plans!...Sooo soon that simple Salome with screw-you hairdo, dancing with Lady Liberty’s head on a plate needed more... |
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Then as I was working on Tyranny’s gumball machine ( See Gallery III) and I had an extra machine, but had broken the glass...But that cog fit perfectly where the glass globe had been!!! The machine part is made of aluminum so I had to seal the aluminum and then paint the mechanism with epoxy and bronze dust...a great Sculpt Nouveau product...after that applied cold patinas to match the bronze to the aluminum… When I was all finished the machine part still worked! But put your quarter in and you get nothing… Hey!!! Isn’t that the world’s new definition of a “working plan” ? Oh I do a political rant here...nah...just do what you do best ...make art... |
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more bronzes |
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And of course it needed a rabbit emerging from his rabbit hole (does this make me an “Emerging Artist”? Hey Ceramic Monthly ...pay attention!!!) As usual the rabbit, the observer within the piece, is aware and horrified. But how to make his rabbit hole?? The year before I found at a salvage yard some lovely big pieces of green marble which looks so beautiful with a Tiffany Green Patina from Sculpt Nouveau...trimmed the marble out with wood from an old frame…
So here she is the little 12” bronze figure grown to a 41 “ tall. The Muse insisted. |
