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"Aluminum foil centaur sculpture" by Melody Pena

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This is a little aluminum foil centaur. I love centaurs, but they always give me problems when sculpting or drawing them; what to do with their hands?? So I gave this one a big bird to play with.




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21 Feb 201145 Juvela Obi
Ooooo... I Likee! ...How’d you do that? I’ve tried tin foil schulptures before, but I can’t ever get them to look quite right and actually stand up...

:-) Melody Pena replies: "It is hard to explain how this was done... I start with a piece of foil and then just go at it, squishing and tearing it till it looks roughly like what I want. I cheated on this centaur, and used some hot glue to hold his abdominal "stuffing" in place. You can still see the crack on his belly where the foil tore a little too much. Hot glue strengthens foil sculptures very well. I also compress and burnish the foil with smooth tools, in areas such as the hooves, so they are very hard and flat.
It is easy to make foil sculptures balance, they just need fussing with to get the center of gravity over the feet.
Thank you for the comment!"
21 Feb 2011:-) Sam Adams
AWESOME!!!!! oh wow, sheer genius...puts my foil ping pong balls to shame1!

:-) Melody Pena replies: "Oh I bet your ping pong balls are gorgeous! Everything you do is gorgeous."
22 Feb 2011:-) Benjamin Harold Abbott
Impressive.

:-) Melody Pena replies: "Thank you!"
23 Feb 2011:-) William Lucius Appaloosius Steinmayer
You didn’t use an armature? Impressive! 7@=e

:-) Melody Pena replies: "Oh, You found it!
I was inspired to make this guy because of my love for Donna Barrs "Stinz" , and your gallery of gorgeous centaurs!!
I was going to make him playing a hurdygurdy, but I draw the line at trying to sculpt hurdygurdys out of foil.
No, aluminum foil doesn’t need an armature. Hot glue is handy though.
Thanks so much for visiting!"
23 Feb 2011:-) Jasmine Luice Snecker
Your creativity know no bounds. i love it!


:-) Melody Pena replies: "thank you for the comment!"
25 Feb 2011:-) William Lucius Appaloosius Steinmayer
I’m flattered! 7@=e
27 Feb 2011:-) Marika Viklund
Wow, very nice foil sculpture! Very nice and "natural" looking. I dunno how you managed to get the details and nice shapes with such a material, but you did a great job on it!

:-) Melody Pena replies: "I used pliers and hot glue! Thank you for the comment, Marika!"
27 Mar 2011:-) Jolie E. Bonnette
Now that is the ultimate in recycled art! Very cool!

:-) Melody Pena replies: "Yes I think this one may of started as a burrito wrapper.
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'Aluminum foil centaur sculpture':
 • Created by: :-) Melody Pena
 • Copyright: ©Melody Pena. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Aluminum, Centaur, Editions, Foil, Melody, Pena, Sculpture, Windstone
 • Categories: Mythical Creatures & Assorted Monsters
 • Techniques: Sculpture, Clay, Pottery, etc
 • Submitted: 2011-02-21 05:55:57
 • Views: 3428
 • Resolution: 357x414

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