Ricardo Godinez applies a green-black patina finish to a solid bronze actor statuette for the Screen Actors Guild Awards after it is cast from molten bronze metal at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank.
( Jesse Goddard / Los Angeles Times)
Ricardo Godinez applies a green-black patina finish to a solid bronze actor statuette after it is cast from molten bronze metal at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank.
( Jesse Goddard / Los Angeles Times)
Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees Clea DuVall, left, and Ann Dowd at the pouring of the actor statuette for the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank.
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Each actor statuette is individually cast in solid bronze using the lost wax process, then given a green-black patina finish and mounted on a base of polished black granite by a team of fine arts professionals at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank.
( Jesse Goddard / Los Angeles Times)