Making Sculpture from Scrap Metal

Author: Peter Parkinson
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1785000225
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Transforming unlikely pieces of scrap metal into significant works of art - giving new life to things we throw away - is an accessible, creative and fulfilling activity. This book describes and illustrates the concerns and techniques involved in making this kind of sculpture, looking behind the work at the richness and diversity of an area of sculpture that deserves to be far better known. Topics covered include the role and purpose of sculpture, the particular qualities of sculpture made from scrap metal and the practical processes involved in its making. It also covers sources of scrap metal, identifying metals, reviewing metalworking techniques, creative approaches, different types of sculpture, and the making, finishing and installation of pieces of sculpture. This book will be of great interest to blacksmiths, sculptors and metalworkers and is beautifully illustrated with 108 colour photographs from work by professional sculptors and students, showcasing a range of different approaches.

How To Weld Scrap Metal Art

Author: Barbie The Welder
Publisher: Barbie the Welder
ISBN: 9781647647933
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Learn how to make welded art today! Barbie The Welder shows you how to easily weld scrap metal art! Each step is pictured for these 30 welding projects to make the creation process straight forward and easy to follow for the beginner or advanced welder! Make gifts or start a metal art business! Projects include Keychain, star, business card holder, scrap heart, scrap words, snail, feathers, flower, bicycle, owl, drink coasters, bike, coat rack, dog, bulldozer, candle holders, steampunk wine or whisky rack, steampunk bookends, pencil holder, jewelry tree, scorpion, fisherman, person, rose, spider, midevil battleaxe, skeleton hand and arm, fly fisherman.

A Universe of Metal Sculpture

Author: Henry Harvey
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764335549
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
The metal artist offers tips on tools, the creative process, and life as an artist and includes color photographs of selected works from his thirty-plus years of sculpting.5NjBwBT

Ready, Set, Weld!

Author: Kimberli Matin
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600592621
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
With simple techniques targeted to a wide and general audience, this guide eliminates the intimidation from an all-too-often technical craft.

Negative Space

Author: Lilly Dancyger
Publisher: Santa Fe Writers Project
ISBN: 1951631048
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Despite her parents' struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger's father, Joe Schactman, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones, human hair, and broken glass, and brought his young daughter into his gritty, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence, she went into her own self-destructive spiral, raging against a world that had taken her father away. As an adult, Dancyger began to question the mythology she'd created about her father—the brilliant artist, struck down in his prime. Using his sculptures, paintings, and prints as a guide, Dancyger sought out the characters from his world who could help her decode the language of her father's work to find the truth of who he really was.

The Art of Sculpture Welding

Author: Kristi Richardson McCoy
Publisher: Industrial Press
ISBN: 9780831135164
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This extraordinary seven-part book covers the processes of creating 13 projects -- from pencils to vases to bicycles -- for all personalities, skill levels and interests. It is specifically designed for students, beginning welders, hobbyists, and do-it-yourselfers. Many of the plans have been built multiple times by students and others. The plans are easy to read and the projects are meant to motivate the reader to want to learn the welding and fabrication processes. All plans include a list of materials, dimensions, special notes as needed., plus any commentaries about special equipment that might be necessary to compete the projects.

Creating Welded Sculpture

Author: Nathan Cabot Hale
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486139352
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
In this generously illustrated guide, newly revised and updated, a well-known American sculptor shares his forty years of experience working with welded sculpture techniques. Nathan Cabot Hale begins with the basic assumption that it is necessary for a sculptor-welder to have the same professional skills as a good job-welder. To help readers gain those skills, he demonstrates both traditional and comparatively new welding methods step by step, including the oxyacetylene technique in modeling small-scale figurative sculpture. Mr. Hale first discusses the basic tools and techniques of welded sculpture, then addresses the construction of abstract and organic shapes and modeling solid figures. This is followed by detailed coverage of finishing techniques, arc welding, and welding large-scale commissioned works. He even dispenses helpful practical advice on the economics of fine art — exhibiting work, staying alive, searching out public and private support, and more. Over 80 helpful diagrams and more than 100 photographs accompany the text, demonstrating techniques and procedures and depicting works in progress as well as finished works. In a new chapter written specially for this edition, Mr. Hale shares the heartening artistic philosophy he has developed over his long and distinguished career. Sculptors at many levels of accomplishment will find his book instructive and inspiring.

Horseshoe Crafts

Author: Barbie The Welder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631581473
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
The sturdy metal of horseshoes meets exciting home crafting in this inventive book. Horseshoe Crafts provides thirty welding projects for you to try at home, whether you are a beginning welder or a more experienced crafter. Author and expert horseshoe crafter Barbie the Welder walks you through the steps. Providing introductory chapters on welding safety and introductory basics, Horseshoe Crafts enables you to learn the skills you’ll need to begin to make fantastic art and décor from new or used horseshoes. In this book, you’ll find step-by-step projects, a list of what tools you’ll need, and instructions on how to set your machines, as well as guidelines on how to finish up a variety of projects such as wine racks, paper towel holders, bowls, and picture frames. Additionally, included are tips on creating a host of outdoor ornaments such as wind chimes, flower pot holders, crosses, and more for décor that will be a welcome addition anywhere. Richly photographed and filled with step-by-step instructions, Horseshoe Crafts will help you weld an array of fun and inventive home furnishings.

Artist Blacksmith Sculpture

Author: David Freedman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533105844
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
David Freedman has taken the art of blacksmithing in a new direction. His metal work ranges from giant insects in the woods of Scotland to seaweed inspired gates on the Cornish coast, ethereal deer in the ancient forests of England and organic seats in some of the UK's finest historic gardens. David's unique sculptural metalwork is shown here at its best, set within the landscape that inspires its creation. David has been forging creative metal sculptures, delicate copper water features, decorative wrought ironwork gates and much more for over 20 years from his backyard workshop in the UK. Rather than a beginner's guide or a blacksmithing manual, this book is more than a catalogue of David's work, with stunning photographs, design notes and sketches as well as perspectives from blacksmiths around the world and a look into the forge, past and present, giving a unique window into the ancient yet ever evolving blacksmith's craft. This collection is also a source of inspiration for those interested in garden design and garden art as well as public sculpture. David is also a writer of articles and fiction. His children's book Stunt Crow is available on Amazon and Jewel of The Brook is forthcoming.

Abstract Bodies

Author: David J. Getsy
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030019675X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Original and theoretically astute, Abstract Bodies is the first book to apply the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies to the discipline of art history. It recasts debates around abstraction and figuration in 1960s art through a discussion of gender’s mutability and multiplicity. In that decade, sculpture purged representation and figuration but continued to explore the human as an implicit reference. Even as the statue and the figure were left behind, artists and critics asked how the human, and particularly gender and sexuality, related to abstract sculptural objects that refused the human form. This book examines abstract sculpture in the 1960s that came to propose unconventional and open accounts of bodies, persons, and genders. Drawing on transgender and queer theory, David J. Getsy offers innovative and archivally rich new interpretations of artworks by and critical writing about four major artists—Dan Flavin (1933–1996), Nancy Grossman (b. 1940), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), and David Smith (1906–1965). Abstract Bodies makes a case for abstraction as a resource in reconsidering gender’s multiple capacities and offers an ambitious contribution to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field.