Final Installation of “Everybody Welcome” in Colorado Springs, CO

Patina and prepping life-size bronze for installation.

The patina is complete and the bronze is ready for installation.

Here are the final photos of the bronze maquette of Fannie Mae Duncan.

The final metal check and chasing of the bronze is complete and the Fannie Mae Duncan bronze is awaiting patina.

The bronze maquette of Fannie Mae Duncan is prepared and the patina is applied at Bronze Services of Loveland.

Metal chasing and welding continues on the bronze maquette "Everybody Welcome" which will soon be ready for patina.

The metal surface of the bronze is sandblasted to remove all shine and rainbows, creating a unified surface for checking the bronze.

The bronze sculpture of Fannie Mae Duncan is welded together and the art of metal chasing has begun.

Fannie Mae Duncan is now in bronze! The ceramic shells are loaded in the kiln, the wax melted out and molten bronze poured into the shells.

Final wax of the maquette "Everybody Welcome" (Fannie Mae Duncan) is chased and off to the foundry to be cast in bronze by Lori Kiplinger Pandy

Scuptor Lori Kiplinger Pandy sketches out ideas for the Fannie Mae Duncan life-size sculpture in preparation for making armatures.

The wax sections of the Fannie Mae Duncan sculpture are now beind dipped in slurry and silica powder to make the outer ceramic shell.

Sprueing, gating and venting the wax for bronze casting of Fannie Mae Duncan bronze sculpture.

Sculptor Lori Kiplinger Pandy explains and demonstrates some techniques in wax chasing for the bronze Fannie Mae Duncan.

Sculptor Lori Kiplinger Pandy explains the process of casting and chasing wax in the lost wax bronze casting process.

Final tweaks to the portrait and start of the moldmaking for the Fannie Mae Duncan memorial sculpture

A summary of the moldmaking for the life size sculpture of Fannie Mae Duncan. The sculpture is destroyed in the process.

The life size clay sculpture of Fannie Mae Duncan is dissected by mold maker Dan Ochs and transported to his Loveland Studio.

Fabricating jewelry to add to the life size sculpture of Fannie Mae Duncan by sculptor Lori Kiplinger Pandy