Heat Meets Wax (further adventures in attention)
We were hoping to do another firing in the oven before the cold set in, but alas... We didn't have enough clay models ready for firing, and well, that's the mud oven back there. So we've moved our operations indoors, working on molds and casts of various kinds again . (This is a clay model of the meditation Hall found in many of the Parks of Study and Reflection around the world.) And then we cooked up some casting beeswax, with a particular recipe of beeswax, paraffin and tree resin in a 70:20:10 ratio. All melted up together in a double boiler, that wonderful beeswax smell filling the kitchen... Here are a couple molds filled up. And here's a wax Hall and a clay one being fixed up because the tip didn't come out right. For some reason we kept getting an air pocket whenever we cast the Venus in wax, so she'd come out deformed with no legs... So in she'd go, back into the pot of wax for another attempt. ...