Degas’ Rare Sculptures Are Stuffed With Wine Corks ... D.C., found that Degas used pieces of paint brushes and part of a salt shaker to create the sculptures. “You buy a wire armature, ...

What do you do with 1,000 pounds of butter crafted into the image of professional sports mascots? Recycle it, of course. As in previous years, the butter sculpture at the 2020 Farm Show has been ...

In order to create the sculptures, students first created an armature or framework for the sculpture using a variety of materials including wire, cardboard, balloons, and aluminum foil.

Then the armature is created out of steel, which is then covered in wire mesh. In this case, the ox was designed by his wife, Marie Pelton. "The welded skeleton is bolted to the floor, and I put ...

She starts with a steel, wood and wire armature of a cow that Lyon created 20 years go and then adds around 450 pounds of recycled, salted butter and starts carving.