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Gameboard Art
What is Gameboard Art?
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Gameboard art is using the games we play and the boards we play upon as
a vehicle for art.
Rather than a shoe, a dog, a train, or a thimble as your game piece while playing your favorite board games, why not have a work of art cast in sterling silver and sculpted with your own hands. |
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Following simple instructions, you are invited to shape and sculpt a piece
of wax the way you want your gameboard piece to be.
When you are happy with its shape and have a nice little wax version of the gameboard piece you want, send your wax artwork to me, and I will cast it in solid sterling silver. |
What will you receive?
I will send you a measured piece
of wax to start your sculpture and simple instructions that will help you
through the process. To stimulate your imagination, there will be
pictures of pieces created by others, as well as suggestions, and ideas.
For example: The small plastic parts used in model building often
can be added to your wax sculpture to give your piece a range, or a character
that comments on you its creator. You will shape, and work, and re-shape,
change and modify until you are satisfied. Then I will cast it in
sterling silver; and of course, there will be support given throughout
the process by Email, post, or phone.
How will your piece be produced?
I will personally cast your work
in sterling silver using the lost wax casting technique. Lost wax
casting is an ancient art used by the Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Incas and
Egyptians, to name just a few, to create works of great beauty. In
ancient times, this might have meant a tiny sculpture or a unique piece
of jewellery carved out of a piece of wax, cast in silver, or gold, and
then adorned with stone, shell, or glass. Anything that can be burned
away without changing its shape while burning can be transformed into precious
metal. Your work will be encased in plaster and then raised to a
temperature of 600 C (1250F) or more and burned away completely.
It will be lost (hence 'lost wax') leaveing an empty hollow within that
very hot plaster that is the exact shape of your work (Even finger prints
in the wax are often visible on the cast piece). Molten sterling
silver is then poured into the hollow where it cools and hardens.
Like an ancient fossil, a perfect copy of the original emerges in sterling
silver.
Please Email me if you would like to know more.
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Anthony G. Ballatore
2000