A head for details
Davenport is an art teacher at Sandra Day O’Connor High School in Phoenix and earned her master’s degree in elementary education from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU.
Brass ingots are melted to 2,030 degrees and poured into molds. The statue is poured in different sections, which are
A game plan
Davenport worked from several photographs of Tillman during the multistep process. She started last November and worked straight through her winter break to make sure the statue was ready to unveil nine months Sulfurated potash, a dark substance, creates definition in the
later — a fast turnaround. “I’ve gotten very fast at sculpting, but I’ve been
folds of the socks and the veins on the arms of the statue.
practicing since I was 6 or 7 years old.”
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welded together after they cool. A patina is then applied.
