How to clean and maintain your Bronze Statues ...

Once you have dusted your statue, if it still looks dirty, you may need to put in a little bit more effort.

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If you do this though, make sure that you use the right tools to clean your bronze so that you don&#;t damage it. 

Don&#;t use polishes or chemicals that will scratch the surface or your bronze because that will leave marks and scrapes on it. Make sure that you don&#;t use hard brushes or one with rough bristles. 

The best material that you can use to clean your bronze statues and sculptures is actually just water and soap. Many people claim that a little bit of soap, such as dishwashing soap, is good for cleaning bronze. Don&#;t use any soaps that are scented, though, because they may end up damaging your art.

If you don&#;t trust your tap water, you can boil it to remove any damaging chemicals. 

Mix the soap and water so that there are just a few bubbles. You just want enough to take off the dirt that is stuck on your statue. 

Get a rag and dip it in the mixture and then just wipe down your sculpture. This should be enough to remove some of the grime.

Depending on how big the statue is, it may take you a while, especially if there are a lot of crevices. If there are places where you can&#;t reach, using a toothbrush may be helpful. 

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Thank you for your recent purchase of a Gibby bronze. Even if you are not new to collecting bronze sculptures you may appreciate recommendations for the care of your bronze sculpture. I hope you find this &#;Quick Care Guide for Bronzes&#; useful.

I use Everdur silicone bronze 873 for casting all of my work. It is and an alloy made up of 95% copper. This is the most workable and most common of the highest quality bronze used in the fine art casting industry. Because there is such a high copper content, this means that it has the potential to oxidize and turn green. To deter this from happening within a short period of time, I seal all of my bronzes with Nicholas Lacquer to complete the patina coloring process while the bronze is still warm and mostly, if not completely, void of moisture. Then I follow it up with an application of a thin coat of carnauba based paste wax.

These two sealing processes are meant to lock in the chemical reactions and pigments created while creating the patina. This should get you off to a good start to maintaining your patina color.

I would like to mention here that like all fine collectibles, there would be an aging process that occurs to the look of your bronze. No patina stays the same exact color forever. Things will happen to the color of your bronze no matter how you care for it.

The question is how it will age and how quickly. The reasons for this, UV rays may break down the exterior seal on your bronze exposing it to the elements, which then break down the patina colors. Secondly, internal moisture from the environment can affect the patina from within. In addition, certain chemicals utilized in patinas have a tendency to continue to react over time. The most common of these elements is sulfur. Over time, and very gradually, you may notice that your bronze may appear a bit darker and often richer in color. This may be due to the amount of sulfur left on the piece in creating certain effects required for the patina. Other chemicals (which I try to avoid) might be considered less stable by nature and change color at a faster rate.

There are various preferences when it comes to how a patina ages. My goal with my work is to use the most stable methods and materials so that the patina ages gradually to reflect it&#;s true age and not prematurely. But there is only so much I can do after the bronze leaves my studio. So, for this reason, I have written this guide.

First of all, it is good to note that the bronze itself should last thousands of years provided that it is not blatantly abused or vandalized with heavy tools. The nice thing about bronze is that it has its own security system. If someone tries to hit it with something, it has a built-in alarm system and it sounds like BONG!!! So, there is no need to worry about the bronze disintegrating even in outdoor or underwater applications.

Second, UV rays kill patinas and it doesn&#;t take long in full sunlight. So the amount of maintenance depends on where you display your bronze. For instance, I have bronzes that I have never had to do anything with except dust. Even that was optional. And I have seen bronzes outside in full sunlight completely lose their original patina within a few short years because no maintenance was done to them. So consider where you will display your bronze to determine a maintenance plan. In general, indoor bronzes need very little maintenance unless they are right next to a window in full sunlight or near a close water source, like a sink or a fountain. All bronzes displayed outside need a regular maintenance plan involving cleaning and resealing. The nice thing is that it is not hard to do and depending on where you live in the world you may not have to do it all that often.

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Quick and guide to the frequency of maintenance:

• Indoor and out of direct sunlight &#; almost no care involved
• Indoor but in direct sunlight &#; maintain every 6 months or so
• Indoors but near the ocean &#; maintain every six months or so
• Outdoors but not in direct sunlight &#; maintain every 6 months
• Outdoors and in direct sunlight &#; maintain every 3-6 months
• Outdoors and in or near water feature including sprinklers &#; maintain every 1-3 months
• Outdoors near the ocean and near a water feature &#; Enjoy having an antiqued green looking bronze.