I'm 77; was just curious; fully watched both videos. Never knew bronze sculpturing involved so many steps, & a rather expensive little hobby. A lot of work & skill with amazing results. Great Presentation. -and I thought bronze was bronze, but you made it electric blue... WHO KNEW !
My three year old is obsessed with balloons and also pouring bronze, 🤷🏼♀️ kids. He watches your balloon video most mornings, and today he asked if he could tell you that he loves your balloon. Thanks for making this video for the both of us!
Jeff, Excellent in every way. Best and most revealing process. To be able to produce and keep the process clear is an art in itself. Calm, collected and so revealing. If I wasn't 73, I might take up bronze as a livelihood. After working in fiberglass and concrete for 45 years, I'm glad I'm 73. Thanks for the video, Best I've ever seen. Dale Mallie/ Archetype Inc
Wow!! I never knew how much work that involved. If you just showed it to me on the street, I’d think it was beautiful and looks great, but never ever imagine the work it took! Thank you for sharing, very interesting!
Stunning. What a huge amount of work and patience involved, but so well rewarded in the end. Actually I loved it just after you’d finished polishing the bronze and would love to have seen it finished at that stage, omitting the painting, but that’s just a matter of taste, I suppose. Anyway it’s an amazing piece of work.
Wow! As Ann Raczok said, apart from being a tad younger than her, I totally agree with what she's said! That is simply amazing. And I applaud your patience and skill in making and completing this project.
Thanks. I have a lot of videos lined up i was just hoping i could get some traction before i finish them. Looks like RU-vid finally put a few of my videos in front of people.
thanks. right now i'm editing through 200GB of footage for a gigantic, 1500lb, quartz crystal with a fabricated steel and bronze base while the crystal is backlit to make the quartz glow.
I recently visited the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. Was very impressed with the Jeff Koons pieces. Watching your work was very helpful. Thank you for sharing your awesome work!!! Very impressive! I did some bronze casting as well, but this technique with the liquid and silica powder was new to me.
Im doing the dollar store version. I think whoever makes his sculptures carves them out of blocks of stainless steel so they dont have casting flaws. They cost millions to produce
First I have to say, I saw the shiny ball and it made me curious! So I begin to watch you work and honestly DUDE!! You are so amazingly talented!! This is a beautiful project, I really just want the pretty balloon. Never will I ever attempt this but you are really good at it, great explanation as you go. You have a great voice for detailing how to do every step. Even with the sped up parts or editing out of some parts your video is so good. This is not a project for the faint of heart but you make it look easy! I just really want the shiny pretty balloon! Wait, I think I said that already!! Many many thumbs up! Just so beautiful!
Of course I have no idea how you would make something this beautiful, but wow, what a lot of work. Looking at bronze and then end product. It was well worth it 😍😍😍
👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! What a nearly unbeliiiievably shiny, great result. Made with a ton of effort and by using a lot of skills and patience. Congrats! Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all of you.
Beautiful work! Just picturing a few baloons like a bouquet. But w/blue, gold, red or whatever mix possible and mounted on rods (look like strings). That would be an awesome piece for display.
Not sure how I ended up here but I watched both episodes and was hooked within seconds . It looks awesome, I liked the bronze finish best . You’re Super talented my friend 👏
Well done. Beautiful result. When I saw it first, in thought you were using a chemical process to metalize the rubber ball on and then build up the metal thickness by electroplating. But there is definitely a harder process that you have chosen. But I guess it is the sweat that makes your process true art.
That is so cool! But my God, that's gotta be the most expensive "balloon" ever, 😅 So much time and work that went into that. But Bravo 👏 that's amazing! You're very skilled.
Disappointing?!? That is one of the most beautiful and well executed pieces I've ever seen! (although you must have asbestos hands to able to TIG weld that close to your bare fingers! 😂)
@@skraminc lmao I can imagine. Watching you do all if this I can only imagine. Maybe a simple shape like a heart balloon or something like that. The balloon I'd much skinnier so that might help. This looks like a lot of fun. But also too much work lol. Thanks for sharing and responding bud
@@skraminc that's cool bud. As soon as I say this I thought of a balloon animal and thought to myself... man that would be cool. Well good luck buddy and take care
When you photograph a shiny object put it into a white tent and make a small hole in the tent for the lens of your camera you can light the tent on the outside with whatever lights you like and you won’t see anything reflected
Was looking for a video like this, the amount of work you've done with doing the things and also filming and editing them are a lot and I appreciate how concise it all was. as to an opinion that has nothing to do with your skill, adding the base and rod to the piece takes away its contemporary aesthetic of being a balloon made of brass and just makes it look like.a brass trophy of a balloon. leaving it be a free rolling no based object would have been more appealing to the concept of juxtaposing two things as the one thing. Thanks for sharing, hope you don't see this as another negative youtube comment and more like a constructive criticism of a very moot aspect of the greater work which was well performed and executed.
it's not a permanent fixture. i can take it off whenever. i sort of just didn't know what to do with it when i was done and the black base keeps it from rolling around everywhere lol. it's just sitting on my desk. i had no idea what to do with the balloon after i was finished so i tried to do a small, innocuous, stabilizer basically. make it low profile.
While it's super impressive that you made the line between the "lid" and the balloon body disappear completely, I think you missed the opportunity to turn this into the coolest container to ever exist. The knot would make for a great handle.
Theyre super thin and dry spray so they wont run and slide down like an avalanche on the polish surface. I think like at least 8. I wing it by looks though
So typically its really expensive and comes in 55 galloon drums and needs to be mixed continuously but some new products are coming out that are available for "hobby" use. One is SuspendASlurry from Ransom and Randolph and it comes in a 6 gallon size and never needs to be stirred. Im planning on doing a video about it soon for backyard casting so people can do more besides just melting soda cans and copper wire
And the part where im dipping into a rubbermaid trash can is about the cheapest way to deal with regular silica slurry. Its like a 1500 dollar electric motor with a prop and a trash can to keep the slurry suspended or else it falls out of solution and hardens
Well, I'll like and comment on each of your videos, in hopes that give you a boost up in the Algorithm. So if you see just a thumbs up, or food item, I'm just feeding Al.
Sir can we make a resin 3d print and then cast it in Bronze using investment mixture ? I don't know it work or not. I do it in Gold Jewellery in India.
Maybe in 1998. Now they use xray machines and aerospace CNC machines to carve steel and work with german auto engineers for fine finishes and paint. There is a whole other world of sculpture
Incredible work, but, as someone who knows little about mould making and metal sculpture, wouldn't it be easier to straight up make the ceramic mould with a real balloon and foam spouts? Completely taking out the silicone mould
I really like the final product, but I don’t get the point in painting it. I mean, the whole point of having a bronze balloon is the bronze part. I could see a clear paint to seal it and prevent patina, but blue paint?
@@skraminc totally, I don’t mean to bash your project (after all, who am I to tell you what to do with your recourses) I’m just saying what I personally would have done. Like I said, it turned out well in the end.
Have you ever tried hammering some pieces together or filling holes by hammering ? (Like the aluminum ball idea, I think Greek masters used to do that)
I dont know if its worth it. The second welders were even slightly viable everyone unanimously switched to welding (1800s, before that castings had to be done in one piece or mechanically connected). Ive never even seen people try to do a retrospective for fun or historical purposes. Even big pieces were rivoted together and then the rivets just hammered flush to hide them
@@skraminc ow rivets… I had no idea! I understand what you mean. Doing some further research I saw that they used a form of welding with molten bronze (probably with a certain temperature and then they hammered it). Thanks a lot for your reply . If you got time to spare it would be a great research to do, it’s a missing thing in archaeology after all.
@@stel1000 sort of off topic but Rodin was massive and he cast bronze sculptures before and after welding was viable so you can see some of his later bronze sculptures that have really rudimentary weld seems on them but it also meant that sculptures could be cast more complicated and in pieces instead of having to do one gigantic casting
I experimented with masking off parts and then masking the previous painted pert to do multiple colours. It is a huge pain and i could never get it how I liked. A really expert like classic automotive painter or those guys who do the wild californian oldies paint schemes or the intricate lowrider guys probably have a few techniques that could help
I watched both videos because I saw some sculptures done by Koons and I was interested in learning how they could be made. Yesterday I saw a video about a woman touching one of the sculptures and it was show on the floor in several pieces. I was wondering how he had made that piece because it couldn't have been bronze or it would not have broken like that.
the real ones are machined stainless steel and a little more sophisticated than my kitchen, dollar store balloon lol but i think the idea is the same if i had a few million dollars to spend
