...and now, for something completely different - a new painting!
i've already transferred the sketch onto a 30 by 40 inch canvas (76cm x 102cm for my metric readers) and started blocking it out in acrylics (i stopped using oils, because for some reason they always make me sick).
the text is in Classical Latin, and translates to "the new world 2014 - praise the excess". i'll leave it to you, my readers, to come up with some profound meaning to this, if any (maybe, i just wanted a painting of a 1st century AD Roman legionary and fast food icons hanging above the mantle shadowing the dining table)...
...i just hope i got the Latin right, don't want my College Latin professors thinking all their effort was for naught (Don't despair, David and Barry, its just been a while)...
Phase 7: prototype wax cast (continuation of my March motor bunny post).
The molds i poured from the clay master were rather rough (this was expected, as it is my very first attempt at urethane rubber - and creating an action figure from scratch), the wax casts turned out a bit bumpy and pitted...
...however, the wax casting was surprisingly easy and fast to do (only took about 2hrs to cure solid for each segment and de-molded painlessly). It was important to maintain the melted down the ingredients (from the previous bunny post) at around 170F, to prevent bubbles from forming or cracking/tearing as the wax cures.
Once de-molded, each segment had to be sanded, scraped and carved to achieve a smooth finish (i got some really cool looking dentistry-like tools for that)...
next step: build and insert the linking joints...
