whdamon
Well-Known Member
Last Winter I took a casting class at the local Fine Art Museum. One of the first projects we had was to make a simple casting in plaster from a modeling clay mold.
Real simple, take a subject (mine was a full figure metal sculpture of John Adams), cram some modeling clay around it on 3 sides, extract the master and then pour in a mix of simple plaster/water.
After this dried, I popped out a torso/head of the old guy, cleaned him up and then used Magic Sculpt to refine some of the details and form the final sculpture.
Applied 2 or 3 coats of shelac (sp) which gave the plaster a good coat of protection and stiffness and after a prime coat went at it with artist oils over an acrylic undercoat. Mounted it on a double matt board insert and placed it in a frame. Walllla...........A fast and simple bust of a Presidential favorite of mine. He will be making the trek to his hometown of Boston this coming weekend, where I will toast his memory with a few pints from his cousins name sake brewery, Sam Adams.
Walt Damon
Real simple, take a subject (mine was a full figure metal sculpture of John Adams), cram some modeling clay around it on 3 sides, extract the master and then pour in a mix of simple plaster/water.
After this dried, I popped out a torso/head of the old guy, cleaned him up and then used Magic Sculpt to refine some of the details and form the final sculpture.
Applied 2 or 3 coats of shelac (sp) which gave the plaster a good coat of protection and stiffness and after a prime coat went at it with artist oils over an acrylic undercoat. Mounted it on a double matt board insert and placed it in a frame. Walllla...........A fast and simple bust of a Presidential favorite of mine. He will be making the trek to his hometown of Boston this coming weekend, where I will toast his memory with a few pints from his cousins name sake brewery, Sam Adams.
Walt Damon
