Nativity Set

Here is a pic of my third (out of four) project for my Beginning Casting class (aka Jewelry class). It took a lot of time to sculpt these figures out of wax, cast them and do clean up AND build a habitat for them! I wound up having to re-do the shepherd and a wise man that did not turn out (I think the bronze got blocked in the mold while casting, all I got was half a shepherd! He looked like the wicked witch of the west melting!) so there was even more work than what appears. I also soldered together some sheet metal to create a star.

My mom and I collect Nativity Sets (and I designed a paper-doll style one a few years ago) so I thought it would be great to make one out of bronze while I am in this class...originally I was going to do this on the side but it wound up being one of my projects!

I really love this class and and am sad that it's ending...I really like my teacher and classmates, too. If it was a perfect world I'd be able to take all the Metals classes....if I have room in my schedule later on I'll take Beginning Fabrication, where you learn beginning metal techniques (hammering, rivets, soldering, bezel setting, etc).