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In a sculpture park
Washing off tree sap from years in wooded park
Begining a new look. Fun and easy.
Painting with a roller and throwing paint with the stir stick.
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Three Queens Sculpture

Richard Arfsten

United States

Sculpture, Metal on Steel

Size: 114 W x 114 H x 48 D in

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Three Queens The sculpture starts as a maquette … a model … a 3D blueprint … of the design. It can be enlarged to any size and made of any kind of sheet metal - bronze, stainless steel, aluminum, mild steel, or Corten steel and left to rust for a natural rust patina. This piece is fabricated in Corten steel and painted with industrial-grade metal paint. If you decide to construct in a metal that can be painted, you have infinite color choices. The piece becomes a three-dimensional canvas that can be easily changed. This way you and generations to come can be a part of an evolving creative process. Simply wash off the environmental grime with a soapy steel wool pad, rinse with water, and let dry. Then you are ready to apply paint using a paint brush or small roller, or dip a twig into the paint and throw it just like Jackson Pollack. You cannot imagine how much fun it is - if you do not like it just put more paint on! It is like changing the color and design of your bedroom walls when trends change. This piece has lived in my back yard sculpture park for many years with a few transformations. I usually put a new face on it every ten years just because I like to. The paint is still good. I love the texture that has been created from the previous compositions. It has become like a richly textured painting in a museum. Fun fun fun!! The size is 9.5'x9.5'x4' You can purchase the enlarged piece, "as is" with the current Jackson Pollack finish, or purchase the maquette and have a metal fabricator in your area build another copy of it. Or I can have it enlarged and built to your specifications and shipped to you. If you want to use it outside of the United States this is a tremendous advantage to you. You avoid large import tariffs and greatly reduce transportation costs. If you like this piece you might like to see more. I have hundreds more in different styles and themes on this site. Enter "Arfsten sculpture" in the search box in the upper right to see them. More Sculpture There are many more pieces of sculpture that I have not had time to put here on Saatchi yet. If you google “Richard Arfsten sculptor” and hit “Images” on the opening page you will see a collection that I plan to put on Sattchi as time permits. There are also many movies of these pieces on “You Tube Richard Arfsten sculpture” with the sculpture in a multitude of settings and verbal discussions.

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Sculpture:Metal on Steel

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:114 W x 114 H x 48 D in

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I have an ambitious approach to life ... and to art ... make something happen every day ... but most of all have fun doing it! A sculptor first, and now working in 2D, I do my best to do just that. Presented here are examples of some of my work. •• My sculpture runs the gamut from abstract, to figurative, to architectural. The materials and methods used are diverse ... from figures modeled in clay or wax, then cast in pewter or bronze ... to aluminum maquettes (produced by evaporative pattern casting) which serve as the 3D blueprints for the pieces that are enlarged and fabricated from sheet metal of all kinds. •• My 2D pieces range from abstract to figurative. You’ll find Originals done in oils or acrylic, one-of-a-kind monotypes, collages, mixed media paintings, and more ... I love working in all mediums. Some of my 2D work may be available as reproductions on this site. ••• MY FASCINATION WITH SCIENCE FICTION & MAKE BELIEVE - When I was in second grade, television was new and the hottest thing. The "Adventures of Flash Gordon" was my favorite program. There was only one kid in the neighborhood who had a TV. We, all the kids, gathered at his house for every episode. I was a huge fan of the characters. Flash was cool and my hero. Dale Arden was OK but Princess Aura was way cooler because she was naughty. Ming The Mercilous was very interesting. But Dr. Zarkov and his super duper telescope - that could see into time forwards and backwards, far and near - was the star of the show for me. The spaceship was really hoakey. You could see the wire that it was traveling on and the little puffs of smoke coming out of it were a joke, even for me. But the concept of the show was magical. Also at that time there were radio shows about space travel and aliens and monsters. I would listen to those shows with my grandfather as I sat on the floor next to the big wooden box radio so I could get the full impact of the sounds. •• These shows inspired me to draw spaceships, mostly "new and improved" versions of Flash's ship. I taped them all over my bedroom walls. At night I would travel with Flash. We would go to distant parts of the Universe and explore ancient ruins - like what I saw in National Geographic when I was not looking at the bare-breasted girls of exotic cultures. (I think artists and sculptors, are to a large part, voyeurs.) Those memories pop up in my art over and over. •• Faces also intrigue and inspire me.

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