Comments on: Caricaturia http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/latest/caricaturia/ My life, my sculpture...and other things Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:41:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cynthia http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/latest/caricaturia/comment-page-1/#comment-4259 cynthia Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:05:37 +0000 http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/?p=7603#comment-4259 Uhm, really? I'll have to go back and look...oh....didn't see it. I use turntables when I'm working, and my favorite configuration right now is the clay on the easel on the short turntable on the long turntable. Gives me just the right height, but the the short turntable tends to swivel when I'm trying to photograph. I probably put the finger out to hold it in place for the process shot. Good catch...it didn't add that much to the sequence, so I took it out. More uploads in a sec. Uhm, really? I’ll have to go back and look…oh….didn’t see it. I use turntables when I’m working, and my favorite configuration right now is the clay on the easel on the short turntable on the long turntable. Gives me just the right height, but the the short turntable tends to swivel when I’m trying to photograph. I probably put the finger out to hold it in place for the process shot.

Good catch…it didn’t add that much to the sequence, so I took it out. More uploads in a sec.

]]> By: Carolyn http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/latest/caricaturia/comment-page-1/#comment-4258 Carolyn Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:01:04 +0000 http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/?p=7603#comment-4258 Enjoyed viewing the slide show & your progress with sculpting, but was surprised to see a middle finger high salute in one of the photos...you might want to crop it out. I guess I am one of those people that see all the details in a photo. :) Nice texture with the male faces. Enjoyed viewing the slide show & your progress with sculpting, but was surprised to see a middle finger high salute in one of the photos…you might want to crop it out. I guess I am one of those people that see all the details in a photo. :) Nice texture with the male faces.

]]> By: cynthia http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/latest/caricaturia/comment-page-1/#comment-4091 cynthia Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:14:39 +0000 http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/?p=7603#comment-4091 Oh, simple: I don't have a vacuum pump handy to de-aerate the silicone once I've mixed it, and I don't want bubbles on the surface of that model. So I put the silicone in a paper tub, suspend it about four feet over the model, and poke holes in the bottom of the tub. The silicone has a low enough viscosity that it drips out of the bottom fairly fast. As it falls, the stream attenuates until its diameter is smaller than the bubbles. Then surface tension comes into play and the bubbles pop on the way down. The stuff that lands on the mold is bubble-free. Usually I let the first quarter-inch or so fill all the mold surfaces, then the stream gets slower as we get to the end of the working time. At that point I dump the rest in, bubbles or no. And yeah, sometime I'll have to get a vacuum pump. This particular silicone is a marvelous, translucent one that lets me make one-piece molds with amazingly deep undercuts. I use a bunch of different silicones and urethanes, depending on the model and what I'm doing with it...so far this one (Silicones Inc. GI-1110) is my favorite. Oh, simple: I don’t have a vacuum pump handy to de-aerate the silicone once I’ve mixed it, and I don’t want bubbles on the surface of that model. So I put the silicone in a paper tub, suspend it about four feet over the model, and poke holes in the bottom of the tub.

The silicone has a low enough viscosity that it drips out of the bottom fairly fast. As it falls, the stream attenuates until its diameter is smaller than the bubbles. Then surface tension comes into play and the bubbles pop on the way down. The stuff that lands on the mold is bubble-free.

Usually I let the first quarter-inch or so fill all the mold surfaces, then the stream gets slower as we get to the end of the working time. At that point I dump the rest in, bubbles or no. And yeah, sometime I’ll have to get a vacuum pump.

This particular silicone is a marvelous, translucent one that lets me make one-piece molds with amazingly deep undercuts. I use a bunch of different silicones and urethanes, depending on the model and what I’m doing with it…so far this one (Silicones Inc. GI-1110) is my favorite.

]]> By: Tony Smith http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2009/latest/caricaturia/comment-page-1/#comment-4087 Tony Smith Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:20:44 +0000 http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/?p=7603#comment-4087 Thanks for sharing Cynthia. If you don't mind sharing some more, why do you drip in the silicone? Tony Thanks for sharing Cynthia.

If you don’t mind sharing some more, why do you drip in the silicone?

Tony

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