Sentence examples for modeling in wax from inspiring English sources

About this time she began modeling in wax.

He was especially adept at modeling in wax, which enabled him to formulate works easily in three dimensions.

Modeling in wax, which would be subsequently cast in bronze, was easier.

The positive can be produced either by direct modeling in wax over a prepared core, in which case the process is known as direct lost-wax casting, or by casting in a piece mold or flexible mold taken from a master cast.

He probably also learned how to model in wax and clay and how to cast bronze.

When she reunited with her father, they sat for each other when he asked her how to model in wax.

With the Renaissance in Italy, modelling in wax took a position of high importance, and it was practiced by some of the greatest of the early masters.

Most were produced using the cire-perdue or lost wax technique, in which figures are lightly modeled in wax over a clay core; when finished, fine wet clay is pressed over the surface of the sculpture to create a mold.

The technique is fairly simple: the part that failed to come out of the cast is modelled in wax again directly on the sculpture.

Degas's interest in the nude ranged from the beginning of his career in the mid-1850s — when he copied the old masters in the Louvre — to the very end, more than 50 years later, when, his eyesight fading, he turned with special urgency to sculpture, modeling figures in wax.

Calder challenged himself by modeling in fast-drying plaster rather than wax; the pieces are all so emphatically squeezed, prodded and gouged that they seem to be nothing but surface, to have no interior volumes.