Category: Sculpture
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Translucent colors
Help: I hate orange, but here it is: definitely orange! In the photos at right I have rubbed on a little metallic gold to tone it down? or at least distract the eye! Now I am playing with how this might get presented so that the light will come through, and in a context to…
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Enter the Ruins
These ruins were once homes: people lived here… This is a cast “reproduction” of my stone carving “Blue Ruins”, a carved Bluestone paver. The paver is extremely hard, and required a lot of work with diamond power and hand tools. I polished some areas and left others rough. The carved stone paver is darker in…
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More Moon Snails
This is my third cast, and tinted to be most like the original shown beside it above. I have a plan for this one: I think it will find a home soon. It may get mounted on a print background in the wooden tray at left, but I am not quite sure yet about that…
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Moon Snail Cast
These are the first resin moon snail casts from my Moon Snail limestone carving, so I am excited! How I did the Colors: I experimented with brushing in powdered pigment, in addition to adding pigment to the resin. This fast cure polyurethane resin is bright opaque white, so I added a little pigment to make…
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More Molds
Preparing to cast my carved limestone MoonSnail. I think this mold is better, but I should reinforce the rigid mothermold: it is too thin on the sides! I have even remember to measure the volume I will need (3 cups) today, so the mold will be really dry tomorrow. I do plan to experiment a…
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Resin Ruins
I have managed to drag success, kicking and screaming, from potential disaster: This is art as a technical challenge: I made a really bad silicone mold of my carving Bluestone Ruins, ruining a layer of silicone with the wrong pigment, then running out of material. But I was able to salvage it sufficiently for this…
