Visit Alice and her friends at a mad tea party sculpture created by artist Bridgette Mongeon
This weekend I took my daughter and granddaughter to see the sculpture at Deep in The Heart Art Foundry. Many don’t know that I have spent six years of my life creating this art. The first years were spent formulating the idea and trying to sell it to my client. My granddaughter is five. Which means she grew up with the sculpture. Pouring over photographs I can see just how apparent that is.
Please pardon our mess. We have documented the entire process of creating the Alice In Wonderland Sculpture on Facebook at Finding Alice Sculpture, but we are slowly transferring all content here. It will make it easier to search. Thank you for your patience.
If you are in the Bastrop, Texas area on Friday the 23rd, be sure to stop in at the Deep In The Heart Art Foundry Open House. Alice and her friends are complete and it offers a sneak peek.
Patina is the color put on metal through the introduction of chemical and heat. This is a massive sculpture to patina and will take a team of qualified foundry workers days . The sculpture will be a traditional bronze patina. The foundry has made me some sample plates while I was visiting. I have a variety of different texture and am known for my textures. Varied texture helps give a greater variation within a small color pallet. The key will be:
1. To work with color and the texture to make the sculpture pop.
2. To make color cohesiveness between the pieces.
3. To help bring the eye through the entire 24 foot sculpture with the use of the pieces themselves, negative space , and color.
This is VERY hard to do when I’m not there watching. Here is the beginning of notes to the foundry. We will work closely with each other to be sure everything is just right.
They have to work hard and fast as humidity and temperature will have an affect on the metal.
