{"id":950,"date":"2009-04-20T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T21:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T22:36:36","slug":"my-first-huge-piece-in-bronze-and-copper-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/my-first-huge-piece-in-bronze-and-copper-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Huge Piece in Bronze and Copper Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-958\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/t-balata1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/t-balata1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The finished piece.\" width=\"415\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-958\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This piece is approximately 4&#8243; x 4&#8243; and weighs 8 ounces. I wanted to make a pieces as big as I can fit in the firing box. My purpose was to see if it&#8217;s possible to fire big sculptural pieces form base metal clay, and also to put my firing schedule to a test.<\/p>\n<p>It is constructed out of five layers of bronze and copper clay. The stone &#8211; a natural sapphire &#8211; was fired in place. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-962\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/t-balata-before1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/t-balata-before1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Before firing.\" width=\"415\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-962\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I laid the piece high in the box and covered it with carbon. Did not use a lid for the first phase.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-953\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/t-balata-in-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/t-balata-in-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"In the box.\" width=\"415\" height=\"443\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-953\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is how it looked straight out of the box, after the second phase:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-954\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/t-balata-out-of-the-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/t-balata-out-of-the-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Out of the Box\" width=\"415\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-954\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was a shame to clean it up, but I did it anyway. It took about 6 hours to sand the front, and I still haven&#8217;t touched the back. That is a project for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece is approximately 4&#8243; x 4&#8243; and weighs 8 ounces. I wanted to make a pieces as big as I can fit in the firing box. My purpose was to see if it&#8217;s possible to fire big sculptural pieces form base metal clay, and also to put my firing schedule to a test. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artinsilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}