
I am now about halfway through the construction of the wax sphere. The wax modules are hollow and have flat bottomed sides when they come out of the mold. I bend them gently around a basketball while they are still warm and cut the bottom edges into gentle curves to improve the fit. I also trim the edges so that each piece on the sphere will be at a slightly different angle. Then comes the very slow process of attaching the modules to each other. Now that I am halfway through this process, I will not be able to use the basketball as a framework to work on, and the attachment process will get a bit trickier. The final challenge will come when I finish the sphere and have to start gating it... multiple angles and overhangs - yikesI *Images of the above mentioned artworks can be found in the Clay & Bronze Sculpture sections of this website. |