Bronze and Iron Resin Sculptures
What is Bronze Resin?
Bronze resin is often used to make sculpture.
It’s basically a more affordable alternative to bronze.
The process of the traditional, lost wax bronze casting takes a long time and goes through many processes. So a lot of the cost of a bronze sculpture is the length of time it takes to make it, as well as the raw material of the bronze, which by the way comes in ingots like gold. Which looks pretty cool on a pallet.
To make a bronze resin sculpture the resin is mixed bronze powder so when the surface is rubbed back with sandpaper or wire wool, the particles of the bronze powder shine through, this gives the appearance of a ‘real’ bronze sculpture.
The resin is an incredibly precise material picking up all the crisp detail in the mold of the original sculpture made from clay. The down side of small bronze resin sculptures over traditional bronze is that they are more fragile. Like a piece of ceramic they can break if dropped, so try not to drop them or let your cat jump up and knock them off the shelf!
If you are displaying the sculpture indoors it will just need a bit a of light dusting now and again, you can also use clean paintbrush to dust any deep bits.
Can I put Bronze Resin outside?
Bronze resin sculptures are ideal for outside and require little maintenance, for more information go to this page.
What is Iron Resin?
Iron resin sculptures are made in the same way as bronze resin sculptures but with iron powder rather than bronze powder.
These are also ideal to put outside in the garden.
Iron resin, like corten steel, will develop a layer of rust which can look attractive in a garden setting, it can often resemble bark or slate which I love. I have an instagram film of this and will add the link here. The rusty patination will not harm the sculpture in any way, it just has a lovely natural look and never needs re waxing.