Page 12  Dec 16.2002

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Picture #1 is the CBS News reporter doing a TV segment on the monumental deer .They will be the worlds largest white tail deer  .  Picture #2 is the clay deer after all the shims have been put in place, and the beginning  of the first coat of rubber being applied .  Number 3 showing Bradley putting on the last coat of rubber.

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Picture #1  Master artists Bradley Cooley and Bradley Cooley Jr. sculpting two massive and highly detailed sculptures #2 showing Deer Two and #3 Final details being added .

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The picture above shows Bradley putting in metal shims where the mold will divide .#2 is where they cover the mold with wax to make a wax impression .#3 is the wax impression .

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#1 foundry worker chasing mold lines out of the wax  #2 Bronze being poured into ceramic mold. #3 pieces that are now cast  bronze

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At long last we had the chance to visit Sam Jones Seminole patriarch and medicine man who lived through three Seminole wars, with eight clans Bear, panther, bird, wind, otter, snake, toad and Deer at the Billie Swamp Safari (800) 949-6101 Located between Ft Lauderdale and Naples take 1-75 to exit 49, then North 19 miles to Park entrance. .Standing with such majesty looking over his domain on a thirty foot high mound of rock Picture #2 Deer clan and #3 frog clan.

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Picture one showing the one deer being welded together in sections . Picture two is Brad JR. standing by the sculpture after it's legs were welded on and number three Brad JR. by the whole deer before it's chased and patina .

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 Bradley Cooley Jr. on site at the foundry in Colorado with "Holding your Own" doing  measures for final  placement Picture # 2 is springtime at Bronze By Cooley Art Gallery & Museum. #3 The new work  in progress is Seminole Veterans Memorial commissioned by Seminole Tribe of Florida As they kneel to pray touching  the granite wall with Seminole Veterans names inscribed. Full colored patina will be applied to the bronze at the end.

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"Magnificent" was the word used to describe this monumental sculpture recently installed by Cooley Sculpture Team at Woodlands World in Pa. This 30 foot high masterpiece was a culmination of Bradley Cooley and Bradley Cooley Jr's combined talent, captures the struggle of one buck against another

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Here are the almost complete individual Seminole Veteran Memorial figures . The colored patina will show the details that are hard to see in clay. The trout fishing is about gone until fall, and the river is as black as the inside of a cow , that means diving for relics is out . So it's a good time to catch up on all the odds and ends that we have been putting off. We finished molding the maquette of the 21 feet deer .

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Here's a few pictures of our latest table top sculpture in clay .