People are familiar with bronze baby shoes, a process which electroplates bronze on the actual shoe. Bronze sculptures are not this fast or easy. You don't pour hot bronze over a sculpture either. Generally, you make an original in clay, make a mold and cast a wax in the mold. You add a pour cup, feed and vent lines to the wax. Next, you dip the wax in a sticky liquid (slurry) and sprinkle sand on it. After it dries, you do it again, and again, until you build up a "shell" strong enough to hold the bronze. You melt out the wax and pour in the bronze. Break away the shell, and there is your bronze. The metal has to be cleaned and any imperfections repaired. Large sculptures are cast in hollow pieces and welded together. The sculpture is then chemically colored (patinaed) and mounted for display