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Journal Entries
To read the journal start
at the home page and
click the
"next" button at the
bottom of each page or you can see the entire
list of journal entries,
to date, on the
Journal Archive Page
Involving Students
in the Newsboy Sculpture
(the bottom of each page
has student and
teacher information)
Articles Written
About the
Newsboy Sculpture
Newsboy Links
Ordering the Small
or Large
Newsboy Sculpture
(Small sculpture is an
edition of 100,
large sculpture is
an edition of 10)
Gallery of the
Life-Size Newsboy
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March 16-April 30, 2005
Putting the Metal Together
It is so much fun to pop in at the foundry and see the newsboy come together. The first day that I came to see how the metal was coming along I was greeted by these upside down legs. It made me giggle. Miguel, the foundry craftsman was working diligently on the metal. Each piece of the sculpture, once the ceramic shell is broken off of it, and it is sandblasted, is gone over very carefully by the craftsman.
I was quite concerned when they cut up the legs of the newsboy the way that they did, so they wax could be dipped and then it could go to metal. I knew they would have to weld these pieces together and I had put texture in the knickers. If they welded the legs together they would have to match my texture. Miguel, the foundry craftsman is absolutely incredible. He made his own tools and then painstakingly pounded the texture into the legs. Amazing!
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