All images © by Paul Nitsche 1991-2024.
work in progress
Several hours of gilding later, the base for the upcoming sculpture, The Ephemeral Knot, is finished. In a few days it will go to woodworker Ed Wohl, who is always kind enough to help me with the clear coat finish work.
Detail of the finished gold leaf base for The Ephemeral Knot sculpture.
The finished red oxide base coat.
The finished gold leaf on the underside of the base.
Applying the gold leaf to the top of the base.
The first of the gold leaf sheets to be laid into the base ornament.
The finished gilded base, less a gloss clear coat.
Detail of the gilded base and ornament.
A sprue tree recently completed. Title and back plates for an upcoming large bronze sculptural piece entitled All Horizons Lost, Flesh Forever Found. Also the remake of The Ephemeral Knot title plate, and some other wax objects for future pieces.
Three sculpture title and name plates with a wax vertebrae and opossum manible.
A detail of the All Horizons Lost... title plate. Anterior and posterior heart views are sculpted on either side. This is the longest bronze plate I will have made, at 1.5" x 14".
The All Horizons Lost... plate on the sprue tree.
The Ephemeral Knot remake wax and the All Horizons Lost... name plate. Also a pine cone experiment. The pine cone should burn out into ash within the kiln.
A few small pieces for future sculptures. A leaf experiment, a vertebrae, and an opossum mandible.
The wax tree now in it's investment mold, waiting to go in the kiln at the University of Wisconsin foundry.
I recently completed an illustration for a very special upcoming project. The official announcement is yet to be made, but I wanted to share some parts of the piece in progress. Usually my illustrations are done in different mediums and pieced together into a whole image. Below are two pen and ink on scratch board drawings that were later incorporated into a larger composition. Before too long, I will present the illustration in it's entirety along with the news of the collaboration.
Girlchild number one. Pen and ink, Scratch board.
Girlchild number two. Pen and ink, Scratch board.