End of the day

Well, sadly I've been clearing my stuff out of the studio space and as a final post from Lumsden (probably!), I thought I'd show you some of the stuff I've been messing about with over the last couple of weeks. Not very impressive in terms of output or quality, but it was the experience that counts!!!




These pictures (above and left) show a bird that I made from a simple plaster mould. Above you can see the original bird (a thrush) as well as the wax one just after it came out of the mould. The picture on the left shows what it looks like after I've carved it and phaffed around with it a bit...

The picture below shows a small (legless) chaffinch that I made from wax - no mould making involved whatsoever, and therefore probably the most succesful thing I did here... It's a bit larger than life size, and it's those colours because they happened to be the colours of the wax that I was playing around with at the time! It's not a perfect representation (I know its beak's too pointy!) - and it wasn't meant to be! (Honest.) I just wanted to see what I could do, and think it'll be a good way make a mould without destroying the original. It's something I'm going to try out when I get back to my own studio anyway...


Finally, here are some of the very first casts that I poured - I give you my blobby green robins... (By the way, the skull in the middle is the real thing - and yes the mould worked fine!)