
We spent last night greeting the start of 2007 with friends. There was music and some dancing. This is an unrelated sketch from 2006. Happy New Year all!
This is a sketchdoodle of no one in particular, but the model for the piece above was an influence.
Two instructors at Central Technical School open another student's mold to remove the clay:
Lining the cement in layers on the inside of the mold:
Here's another view of the two halves of the mold. I built the cement up a bit more, but not too thick. Then (no pictures for the next stage) I added strips of fiberglass soaked in a thin slop of cement, to make the piece strong.
The cement sculpt newly removed from the mold, with the light 'bloom' forming on the surface:
The finished piece stained with a furniture polish and rubbed with a brass barbecue brush to give it a brass patina: