{"id":697,"date":"2015-07-04T22:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/?p=697"},"modified":"2015-07-04T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:25:19","slug":"grizzly-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/grizzly-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzly Bear bust in the works…"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a year ago, I did this small study of a bear at the Montana Grizzly Encounter captive bear facility between Bozeman and Livingston, MT. I liked it so much that I cast it and eventually convinced myself that it would be a great piece to enlarge. Here are some pics and notes on the progression from small wax study to a larger-than-lifesize model.<\/p>\n

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CAST BRONZE STUDY\u00a0– “His Lordship”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"11229692_841755589248037_8754924032171020092_n\"\u00a0Planning out the layout and design of the larger bear bust….<\/p>\n

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With some help from the lessons learned from my great 10th grade trigonometry teacher, I designed out this custom pair of 50″-long measuring calipers to do the enlargement.
\n\"10339593_841755115914751_7674550043263193737_n\" Welding up the steel support post for the larger sculpture.\"IMG_0512\"\"IMG_0511\"Glueing the styrofoam sheets together under a little extra weight and placing the first pieces onto the steel support.<\/p>\n

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Initial roughing in of the foam and beginning clay application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a year ago, I did this small study of a bear at the Montana Grizzly Encounter captive bear facility between Bozeman and Livingston, MT. I liked it so much that I cast it and eventually convinced myself that it would be a great piece to enlarge. Here are some pics and notes on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}