Wax sculpture

Using polyester resin and wax, Rebecca Stevenson creates delicate sculptures with baroque flourishes. Flowers and heirloom tomatoes blossom from the heads and bodies of her human and animal subjects like the ornamental flora in Italian Renaissance paintings. The floral growths sometimes appear as adornments on the living body, but in some of her works, they look like the agents of decomposition and regeneration. Take a look at some of Rebecca Stevenson's work after the jump.

Something I did early summer. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands. Had a lot of unused candles and too much free time. Basica... Dripping Wax Mini-Tower

By Susanne K. Arnold Medardo Rosso As an organic medium beeswax has the unique ability to simulate the look, touch, and feel of human flesh. From earliest times, artists and craftspeople took advantage of these qualities to create lifelike reproductions of the human head and body as objects for devotion, commemoration, scientific study, entertainment, and art. After the Renaissance wax was considered too fragile a medium for finished sculpture and was ignored by the history books. By the…

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Wax sculptures from 2005 - present by contemporary sculptor and photographer Petah Coyne.

Wax copy of Giambologna's Rape of the Sabine Women, with lit candle, slowly melting at the Venice Biennale. Artist: Urs Fischer

This wax sculpture of a sleeping woman was made with several wicks, turning her into a giant candle (not to be mistaken for the soap woman of the Mutter Museum).…

All wax. Artist: Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer - Self-destructing wax candle sculpture at the Venice Art Biennale 2011