Makin' feathers

[Jason W.]

My current project requires some feathers. I'm using a marble to help with the form. I coat the marble thinly with Vaseline then attach a blob of Kneadatite. The edges of the "blob" are smoothed out and the sculpting begins. I start with typical feather shapes using the toothpick and finally refining with an X-Acto knife.

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[Ulrich]

Great idea. Thanks for sharing

Ulrich

 

[kansas kid]

Re: Makin' feathers; good idea. . .

Thanks Jason:

Appreciate the WIP and great close up photos of how you make feathers
using Duratite (sp) two part putty. . . I didn't think about the Vasoline
and how that would keep the Duratite from sticking to the marble.
I'll have to try that.

Thanks again,

Jaybird

 

[BarrieHynd]

Cool idea, thanks for sharing.

Barrie.

 

[FigureLover]

Wow, they come out well. Like the others, i didn't think about sculpting them on a vaseline coated marble, but really, it makes sense.
Ben