Made by Sarah Manchester
Here is Raphael in all his colourful glory. I used acrylic paints to create the effects and had fun in the process. A final coat of PVA to give him a sheen all over, rather than just on the metallic paint areas. I love him. The idea was patinated Bronze and I was delighted to discover the many colours available on real bronzes. If you google it, there are foundries that provide colour-charts for patinations available if ever you want to commission a bronze sculpture. I think I will stick to paper clay!
This is just a beautiful sculpture. The detailing is so well done. Congrats!
Lovely end product Sarah! You did a great job on the painting. Have you ever checked into the Sculpt Nouveau products? It would be worth your while to check out their bronze/copper/iron paints that actually have bronze, etc in them. When you apply the patina, it will react to the bronze and gives a true to life patina look.(not that yours doesn’t!) At the very least, go on their website to check out their many tutorials. It is interesting.
Nice job on Raphael!
Thank you for your lovely comments Eileen. I will check out the Sculpt Nouveau website. I am thinking of doing a huge version of Michael in the driveway in cement and products to make it look like patinated bronze would be marvellous. I thoroughly enjoyed playing around with the acrylics on Raphael. I was able to get a graduated colour with the green changing to copper from the bottom of the figure upwards, which I am not sure I would have been able to achieve using patination products. However, I will have a good look at their tutorials and see what can be done. Thankyou very much for the suggestion. I have also ben looking at pictures of nebulae on the Hubble telescope site for Michael’s paint job as well as bronze patinas. Amazing colours and effects. I need to find a spare ceiling or two!