It started raining today in Aloha. Not sprinkles but real rain. The rain I grew up with. So I had to improvise with the umbrella. As I stood under it, mixing cement and filling molds with frothy brown cement, it was as if I were serving up lattes in strange silicone cups.
I woke this morning to a cement smorgasbord of castings that were eager to be free of their molds.
After visiting my rock garden, it appears the heads on the left are still annoyed at the head on the right prattling on about the wonder of life.
This guy is one of my favorite pugs that I sculpted, so I was quite dissapointed when I went to finally make a cement casting, something I had neglected, I’d only made resin castings, to find that it had been damaged and was no longer usable. So I used the sculpture I have to make a new mold and now I have my cement casting.
I’ve recently gotten into candle making and have found a wax that works well for the type of candles I’m making, a few classic scents like apple/cinnamon and vanilla, and some colors I like.
These photos are of a torso I’ve sculpted with the intention of making a mold of it that I can then use to cast wax versions that I will turn into candles.
I am currently cleaning up the flaws and tool marks on these two Frenchie sculptures in preparation of making molds of them.
