Showing posts with label extruding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extruding. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 April 2011

Tarp Disasters and Other Tales....

Argh! Progress these past few days has been hampered by the constant wind and the tarp on top of the garage blowing around and generally not behaving...Culminating with a total blow-off the other day.  At least it wasn't raining.
Daylight

Breezy

Shaft of sunlight is nice but not really what I wanted...

Thanks to the help of Big Ron, the tarp is now well secured and had half of a building site on top of it to keep it put!

Yesterday, I finally finished all the bottom half of the figures, for those of you familiar with my work, the paperclay is the next part.  I have saved all my scraps clay from the building process and have been drying them out in order to make slip and eventually, paperclay.
Wrapped up and ready to be joined

Extruded coils






Finished!


I made new plaster slabs and have been carving new illustrations on to them .... its all about the prep and I am off out now to get started!

Drying scraps

New Plaster bat




Monday, 4 April 2011

Further Progress

Its been another busy couple of days, Friday was a write-off due to the wind.... A tarp on top of the garage roof and a leaky roof does not mix and I spent most of the day up a step ladder pulling the tarp (and accompanied concrete slabs) over the roof.

I have finished the bases of all the male figures, just the ladies left! The brogues are very time consuming but I am pleased with them.  

The week in general has been hectic.  Monday evening was spent extruding cylinder shapes at work and Tuesday was spent driving a minibus full of students from Fraserburgh to Glasgow and back, looooong but worth it, I never tire of seeing the Kelvingrove.  
Wednesday and Thursday were my last evening classes of the session - the Raku was a success and I received so much lovely gifts, unbelievably kind of everyone.
I also managed to find time to extrude loads of coils - which I will use to finish the bodies of the figures this week.  

Extruded cylinders

Brogue


Adding socks before decorating

Keeping cosy...


A Gelatte workboot perhaps?



thoroughly wrapped up to prevent drying out.

The big hole in the roof is not too bad but when it rains, I have to periodically 'poke' the water that collects in the tarp out or I get a big puddle in the garage!
Bulging tarp

weet fleer