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Figured it was probably high time that I started sharing some of the Paleoart exploits that I have been doing over the past several months. I’m a professional landscape painter, and I dabble in paleoart when I can. I do a lot of ceramics and I do bronze pours when I am able to. First off, I have been working on a sculpture of Acrocanthosaurus in iron and bronze. The process involved me making the sculptures in wax, and then making a ceramic shell around them. They were then superheated to melt the wax, and I assisted in pouring the molten metal into the molds. The base, tree, and small raptor are in bronze, as iron was too brittle to use on delicate details. The Acrocanthosaurus is in iron that I helped to pour when it was over 2500°F/1400°C. The wax version early on in the process. I’m on the left in the first photo and on the right in the second. The Acrocanthosaurus mold prior to being divested of the ceramic shell And after! Still attached to the vents and cup that was used to dispel air during the pour. after the extra stuff had been cut off, prior to me doing lots and lots of grinding.