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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects > Wire Crafts > Making Wire Sculptures
Here is a basic guide to wireworking and making basic wire sculptures. The following steps will help you make your first wire sculpture...you can then use your creativity and imagination to come up with other ideas for your next sculpture. Have fun.
1. Any heavy flexible wire, heavy stovepipe wire, iron wire, copper or aluminum wire or baling wire
2. Pliers or tin snips will be needed for breaking or cutting wire (No tools are necessary if the wire is sufficiently pliable)
1. The wire may be bent and twisted into any form you choose. Take care that the finished product is a third dimensional form rather than just a flat outline shape.
2. A preliminary sketch will help you plan your wire sculpture. Coils may be used for arms, legs, etc. (Coils may be made by wrapping the wire around various objects and some unusual coil shapes may be formed by hand. Pencils and dowel sticks will make good forms for round coils and small pieces of scrap wood, medicine bottles, tool handles and other objects will provide interesting forms for other coil shapes.)
3. The finished object may be made from one continuous piece of wire or from a number of pieces fastened together.
4. Wire sculpture may be painted when finished if color is desired.
5. Other materials may be added to wire sculpture--plastics, metals, sponges, wood, etc.