{"id":12802,"date":"2019-10-19T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12802"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:08:57","slug":"venus-of-willendorf-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/venus-of-willendorf-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus of Willendorf sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The latest piece in my pagan sculptures is finally finished after months of putting her off, this is a large scale version of the Venus of Willendorf carving that I’ve been working on for far too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original Venus of Willendorf <\/a>is about 4.4 inches but mine is a large 7.5 inches to make it more solid, not that she needed to be too much more robust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t have a lot of behind the scenes photos as I didn’t take many. I made the whole piece with milliput and a large squarish chunk of stone for the base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once finished it was moulded in a small vat of silicone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final castings are made with stone powder (similar to plaster) and then weathered with thinned out acrylic paints. While experimenting one came out a very day glow yellow that didn’t suit her. I sprayed that one in a copper paint which looked nice when weathered with oil paints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first three are now available in my Etsy shop. Theres the copper version, a stone finish and a terracotta effect. More versions may become available as I try out different things in the casting stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/uk\/shop\/CastingsofCthulhu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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