My Archnemesis

Air bubbles. Mixed in with concrete, they create voids on the surface of a sculpture. To reduce the amount of bubbles, I bang my molds 200+ times on the floor or work table. Vibration works the bubbles to the surface.
Here's a picture of the surface or the wet concrete with the bubbles coming up through the surface after being whacked on the table.



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Work in process at the Frogtown Community House

Here's my second studio at the Frogtown Community house. It's a little closet where they are letting me work.




And, here are the two pieces in process at this time:
The Dream of Saint John the Baptist




And a model for the sculpture The Three Children



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Plain pavers demolded. This one is in memory of my Grandpa Al. I hear he made cement block at one time too.



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Location:Plain Pavers

Today's Drawing

Why are you weeping? She is not dead but only sleeping.


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Sketching at Nina's

What a morning at Nina's cafe with a block of clay and some brainstorming to do looks like.















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The Mother and the Mother Mold

Today, I made the first half of the mother mold for the plain pavers.



And, my mother came to visit!



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Inner Molds for the Plain Pavers

Today's work: Inner flexible molds for the plain pavers. Yep, same exact process as the last project I posted.




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Plain Pavers for Grandma's Garden

The current paver project is for my Grandma Dorothy's garden. She wants twice as many plain pavers as patterned pavers. Today, I prepped two plain paver models. They are al ready for the mold to be made.



There are two more concrete figure statues in the works too. Pictures of work in process to come...

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Spring

All my interesting art stuff is not photographable today, but God is making some beautiful art outside!
Just gotta love all the little buds!



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Demolding the New Pavers

And here they are, the two new new pavers come out of their molds.



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Casting the New Pavers

Here are the completed molds, model still inside.




Now, the model has been removed, and you can see the model, mother mold, and inner mold.



Now, the paver molds are ready to be filled with concrete.



Here are the molds filled with concrete. Next up, the molds will be removed and there will be the finished paver.



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Friday Making

Today's Work:

Making the second half of the new pavers' mother molds. Next up is demolding!




And, doing a little artist nurturing. Great book. Really isn't as kooky as the cover makes it look. Very practical.



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Making The Mother Mold

Today's work: making the first half of the paver's Plasti-Paste mother mold.



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Making Paver Molds Continued...

After it's fourth layer of Brush-On 40, the paver is ready for it's mother mold - after curing overnight.




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Making Paver Molds

Today I am making molds for two new paver models.
Here is a paver model with one layer of Brush-On 40 mold material.


Here's a paver model ready for the Brush-On 40.


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