Hovering face

I've found that sometimes the best way to get your motivation back into making art is to try something different for a while, it allows some breathing space, time to think and hopefully makes it that little bit easier to re-inject some enjoyment back into the process of creating itself. That's my theory anyhow and the results of my one night excursion away from my work in the studio are displayed below in the form of a little hovering clay face. The piece will be lacquered shortly once its dry. The metal stand was part of an old sieve used for sifting plaster.

      

Roseangle Exhibition Photos

Shot of Studio 1

Roseangle Postcard

10 x 15cm Acetate, acrylic, copper dust and silver pigment ink

Postcard sized artwork to be raffled off at the Roseangle gallery opening this Friday they're also on sale outside the Art shop within DoJ all this week for £1.00 a ticket, bargain.

So far so good

After spending another several frustrating hours this morning re-sealing the light frame I eventually managed to get down to the resin room. The first layer went on pretty smoothly, will have a better idea on Monday as to whether or not stress cracks are going to appear or if it will shrink too much. The first layer was set at about 3 mm, this took approx 2.5 litres of resin, luckily I've been allocated a 20 kg barrel of the stuff, bad news is i'll probably have to pay for it after this, we shall see.

Long day

Today was mostly spent sealing and re-sealing the light-frame for casting the resin tomorrow, I'm hoping desperately that in using silicone to seal this frame that it wont have an adverse affect with the type of resin I'm using, I'll only find out this of course when I try it tomorrow... oh and hopefully the sculpture department will have enough to cast a 60 x 80 cm light-box, should have checked this today but was losing the will to live. We will see, fingers crossed everything will start falling into place tomorrow, if not a radical rethink may be required, will try to post some photographs either tomorrow or at the weekend.

PDQ

Just spent £30 quid on an A1 size print for the lightbox background, hopefully will be worth it, will be fitting it in the studio tonight. Incidentally £6 for a hard-back binding of a dissertation, might start using these guys instead of the university unit.