Resin Horse Sculpture - by Sculptor Patricia Crane

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By the same sculptor who created life size bronzes for the Kentucky Horse Park.

Resin Horse Mare and foal by Patricia Crane

Resin Horse Sculpture by Patricia Crane was and is created in the hope that each resin sculpture will be enjoyed by others at least half as much as she has enjoyed creating it.

As an equine sculptor, Patricia has worked for decades in bronze sculpture, with life size works in front of museums and smaller works in public and private collections across the world. The resin horse sculpture offered below, is a more recent involvement. The skill of incorporating new sculpture materials to express the important values in life and heart are the task of each generation of skilled artists. The point here is that resin or any material can be made to sing the song of the horse if care and skill are equally engaged.

RESIN HORSE SCULPTURE EDITIONS:

Resin horse - portrait of Supreme Sultan.

Supreme Sultan Resin
Portrait Sculpture
A resin portrait of the
famous stallion makes this
a rare collectible.

Resin Show Horse

Flare
A beautifully detailed resin portrays the head set of show horses in motion.

Resin horse Sculpture edition titled Nocturne.

Statues

Nocturne
Each resin is hand-painted. The commercial stains most use for a "quick" finish are not ever employed.

Resin horse, an edition of a foal titled Prelude.

Resin Foal Figurines

Prelude
This resin foal is a sculpture to delight any horseman's eye.

Resin horse sculpture edition titled Sonata.

Artist Resin Horses Sculpture

Sonata
The expressive detail in this resin sculpture speaks to anyone who has been lucky enough to experience partnership with a horse.

Resin Horses Sculpture as a Set: stallion, mare and colt.

3 Artist Resin Horses
Sculpture Set

Nocturne, Sonata and Prelude
Hand-painting combined with the work of a well-known sculptor makes each resin in this set unique. A grouping of three is offered.

Hand painted resin horse, chestnut color

Arabian resin horse sculputre set, mare and foal

Arabian Resin Horse Art "Dalla Luce"
Arabian resin horses, sculpture in white or chestnut, or as a set with a foal.

THE CASTING OF RESIN HORSE SCULPTURE TODAY

The finished products of horses cast in any plastic type of casting material began with toys. Everyone knows Bryer horses, and before that Hartland. Before that, the Marx farm sets of the 50's. Now the resins were popular, but toys didn't have to have the same detail as a fine arts bronze sculpture. Serious sculptors finally began to be interested in 'resin horse sculpture' because the casting process was easier than bronze and much, much less expensive. Customers and collectors could buy detailed horses at more affordable prices. With resin, there are not a huge amount of limitations either.. Silicone, is used for molds, which can pick up the detail, and can range from super stretchy to hard like tire rubber, making it useful as a casting material. Many casting material make shapes and details impossible to reproduce in the finished products.

Resin horse sculpture is also very durable, so you have good detail and a strong material . Polyester resin is the most common and it can be filled for thicker castings to affect its appearance, or tinted with colors both transparent or opaque. Of course most who sculpt for casting resin horses will prefer hand-painting so as to give the 'feel' of an alive animal.

It is popular today to create resin horse sculpture that is very smooth on the surface. This is unlike the finest of bronze sculptures where both the original clay and the cast bronze both have their say, as their voices are present in the finished sculpture. So the hand-painted of resin horses takes the place of what has long been and is inherent in bronze work. Indeed resin horse sculpture is now a genre of its own!

Crane's collection of resin horse sculpture offers a greatly affordable alternative to the more permanent commitment of bronze, while presenting no limit to her quality of sculpting.

MAINTAINING QUALITY IN THE RESIN SCULPTURE

Crane's resin horse sculpture offers a greatly affordable alternative to the more permanent commitment of bronze, while presenting no limit to her quality of sculpting.

The flexibility of resin as a casting material allows the horse sculpture to retain the finest of detail, IF the original from which the casting mold is made, had such fine detail to begin with. So it is the sculptor's job to sculpt well and with great attention to detail, as well as with true anatomical proportions.

The job requires great willingness to create detail, musculature, proper anatomy, and of course attitude of the animal. It also does require a very good painter to enhance the work while not overpowering what is happening in and with the resin horse sculpture itself. A good paint job on a poor sculpture can only go so far. While an overblown paint job can lessen the strength of a good sculpture.

For high quality control of resin horse sculpture, it is also important to not over-use a mold. Molds can only be used X number of times before detail softens and begins to be lost altogether. The sculptor who prizes high detail must destroy a mold eventually and create a new one, for further casting.

Each resin is available to the personal collector , or available as sculpture trophies and awards. More breeds will be added as the sculptor's time permits.

Click to view another resin horse sculpture page - Model Horse Resin Sculpture

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