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Golden Pheasant Bird Sculpture
Understanding about a bird while sculpting a moment in the bird’s life is of utmost importance. It makes all the difference in believability and connection with the artist and the sculpture.
The Golden Pheasants, some of the most beautiful birds, also called the Chinese Pheasant or Rainbow Pheasant, are lively and energetic. This sculpture catches the bird at a moment of food foraging.
The Golden Pheasant male grabs attention because of his bright colors, golden crest and the red color in his under parts. The artist captures the proportion of the tail to the body. In real life the bird’s tail is 2/3 the length of the body. The wing span is about 27”. The pheasants are clumsy fliers but fast runners! More information in the following website: https://animalia.bio/golden-pheasant
These are really interesting birds to study and presented several challenges to sculpt.
This Golden Pheasant, Linda’s Exotic Bird Sculpture, is approximately 20” tip of tail to beak. 12” tall and 4” deep. He is one of a kind sculpture and is made of polymer clay on a wire armature. The wire is shaped into the form of a bird, filled with foil and covered in a thin layer of polymer clay which is baked. Polymer clay canes (logs of polymer with a pattern running the length of the log) are shaped and cut into thin slices to be use as feathers. Polymer clay creates the color so no paint needs to be used. Polymer is durable, water resistant and colorfast making it the perfect medium for this kind of sculptures. After the individual feathers are placed on the bird, he is baked again sanded and buffed.
The armature……The clay form……and The tail
The long tail of the Golden Pheasant is made and baked separately. The tail is added through a slot to the finished bird. The scale of the bird was dependent on the size of the oven for curing.
This sculpture adds beauty to any room décor. It can be used outside in a protected space keeping in mind that freezing temperatures could cause cracking and extreme heat could soften and sag.
The process to make this bird takes about 40 hours and there is only one! He could belong to you….
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