Our studio is located in Central Texas just outside of Austin in the best small town known for it's love of Hippos! - Hutto, Texas.
Contemporary, Modern Family Sculptures, Traditional Anniversary Gifts and Personalized Family Christmas Ornaments.
Commemorate your (7th, 8th or 10th) Wedding Anniversary with this Cold-Casted (Aluminum, Copper or Bronze) sculpture of your family of six! The children can be either boys, girls or both. Choose the option that matches your family best!
This is a for a family of six sculpture. As you check out, please be sure to tell me the genders of the children (preferably, youngest to oldest). Feel free to contact me if you have a different family size as I have several designs available. Custom designs are also available.
Engraving text is extra and might add to the processing time so please take that into consideration when ordering. Text can be engraved on the front or the back of the sculpture.
The sculpture is created using a cold-casting technique. "Cold-Casting" is a term used to describe the process of mixing metal powder with a resin to create castings that give the appearance of solid metal. The metal cold-cast process is faster and much less expensive compared with foundry casting of molten metal (lost wax process.) Actual aluminum (copper or bronze) metal is used in the casting and the sculpture is antiqued with a black wax.
Please feel free to ask any questions you have before ordering.
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Kind regards,
Elizabeth
Our mission is to create sculptures that you connect with and will always remind you of a special time in you and your family's life.
Elizabeth Bonura
Sculptor
My artwork is inspired by life, love, and above all, family. After getting engaged, I was greatly inspired by the idea that when a couple gets married two become one. This comes to life as the figures I sculpt are formed into a connected image. Once I became a mother, I began to add children to my artwork. This theme of connectedness continues by creating the children around the parents all emerging together.
My original designs are sculpted out of clay. I then make a mold of the clay sculpture. Depending on the size of the sculpture, it will be cold-cast with bronze, aluminum, or copper ("Cold-Casting" is the process of mixing metal powder with a resin to create castings that give the appearance of solid metal) or cast in cement and painted with a bronze metal coating (ground bronze metal suspended in an acrylic binder). Finally, the sculpture is finished by polishing and waxing by hand. This intense finishing process reveals the metal’s shine and highlights the details.
I began sculpting professionally over 20 years ago. In the early 2000s I became famous for my polymer clay portrait sculptures and wedding cake toppers. The five-foot life-size "bride’s cake" (where the polymer-clay-sculpted head and shoulders emerged from a six tiered cake) brought me international acclaim! My work has appeared on CNN, Inside Edition, countless news stories and in Inside Weekly Magazine. I have appeared on HGTV's That's Clever!, and my art dolls have been published in several national magazines. Currently, I have sculptures on display in the Georgetown Sculpture Tour, the Cedar Park Sculpture Garden and in the Bee Cave Sculpture Park.
Our studio is located in Central Texas just outside of Austin in the best small town known for it's love of Hippos! - Hutto, Texas.