While waiting on latex, cement, and paint to dry on the gargoyles and other things, I decided to work on another little casting project I have been meaning to get to. My wife purchased these really cool metal numerals that came with a wood plaque to mount them on. After putting it all together I…
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The Corbel: Part IV
So I cleaned up my little gargoyle corbel…. my “gorbel” as it will now officially be called, and then poured another. Can’t have a long shelf without something holding up both ends now, can we? I started a little acrylic paint wash on the guy trying to get him to look a bit old-ish, bronze-ish,…
Part III: The Corbel
Ok, we are ready to pour a corbel! You can see above I have my latex mold back inside my mothermold and have secured the two halves of the mothermold with a piece of rope. To help with the release of our poured piece from the latex part we use a mixture of regular alcohol…
Update: Part II The Corbel
So I left off here above with half the mothermold, with intake registration holes, that was poured around half my latex covered corbel and was ready to form up second half of the mothermold. Here I have build the form for the second side of the mothermold. Before pouring I will coat all of…
What? A Blog… No Way
Yep, guess it’s time to pick up the pace here at the little stray artist shop and begin a bit of a “blog”. Let’s see… Been working on a corbel. Sculpted one out of WED clay first… He is a little gargoyle-ish creature standing on the corbel scroll base holding up what will eventually be…