#lost wax casting

[parliamentrook]

soft launch of cast bronze and silver things in the shop you can buy right now!!

also unpictured but there are bronze crow talons, silver mini sparrow skulls, and both bronze and silver oak keys, all in stock ready to ship

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FrogFriday in the Ancient Americas wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 🐸:

Moche artist(s); North Coast, Peru

Stirrup-spout bottle with toad, 200-500 CE

Ceramic, slip

Central Region artist(s); Costa Rica

Frog pendant, 300-800 CE

Jadeite

Classic Veracruz artist(s); Mexico

Frog yoke, 600-900 CE

Greenstone, pigment (probably hematite)

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s); North Coast, Peru

Beakers with faces and frogs, 900-1100 CE

Gold

Mexica or Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s); Mexico

Necklace with frog-shaped beads, 1400-1521 CE

Gold (lost-wax casting)

[nickifortunati-warren]

Keep believing, keep dreaming 💪🏽

[smegshroom]

Fully finished result of the Warhammer Tzeentch themed pendant!🌀

[palaeosinensis]

It do be like this sometimes.

[haezel-art]

Sterling silver rings, original, one of a kind, stackable, handcrafted.

Made using a 6000 year old technique: hand sculpted in organic beeswax (no paraffin) and then cast using the lost wax technique.

[blondebrainpowered]

A Japanese Meiji-era (1868-1912) bronze vase in the form of a Koi Carp.

[bewareoffauves]

Here is a sculpted aluminum comb I made a couple years ago

I've got to take more pictures of this thing