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Summer Workshops  | Max-Cast will be offering a series of summer sculpture workshops, here is our schedule of classes; please e-mail or call us if your are interested. | | July 1 & 2 | Sculpting the human figure | | How to model with oil clay, including making support structures. $150.00 | | | July 8 & 9 | Sculpting Animals | | Armitures, oil clay and wax, how to make them look alive. $150.00 | | | July 15 & 16 | Rubber mold making | | Flexible rubber molds make it possible
to replicate an original in other materials such as wax or plaster.
Students will learn to make a rubber mold and mother mold by making
one small piece of thier own. $200.00 | | | July 22 & 23 | The lost wax process 1 | | Casting and preparing wax patterns for metal
casting; this includes surface finishing, gating, venting and wax welding.$150.00 | | | July 29 & 30 | The lost wax process 2 | | Hands on ceramic shell molding,
taking wax patterns through the dips to the burnout
ready for bronze casting. $150.00 | | | August 5 & 6 | Sand molding for metal casting | | Covers how to make resin-bonded and
sodium silicate bonded materials for iron, bronze and aluminum casting. $150.00 | | | August 12 &13 | Metal Finishing | | From cutting off sprues with a plasma cutter,
through TIG welding, to polishing. There will also ve a introduction and review to finishing tools and techniques. $150 | | | August 19 & 20 | Patination | | An overview of coloring metals. Types of patinas; hot,
cold, dyes, waxes, surface preparation and conservation. $150 | |
Individual Instruction and Professional Improvement It is often difficult to fit the above workshop dates to your schedule or perhaps they do not quite meet your needs. For those of you who have a specific project you wish to carry through yourself, you may use the shop on a time and materials basis at an hourly rate of $15 plus time and materials. That way a fairly large project could be carried through start to finish, in no-bake sand or lost wax from rubber mold through metal finishing and patina. |
