Ball Consulting
Suppliers for Mold Making and Life Casting products
4665 S. Ash, Suite G 15
Tempe, AZ
Nikki at Ball Consulting will demonstrate how to take a mold of a hand and cast it in plaster. She will also show us how to mold the casting into flexible rubber with Forton MG and urethane plastics.
From those molds, she will then demonstrate the Cold Cast process with both FMG and with urethane.
The hand mold is not only good for sculptors, but good for people who draw and paint as they can make their own hand references.
At our last meeting Carol Ruff Franzia shared with us her process for creating figures and animals using plasticene. She brought in a larger than life size rooster she was working on, as well as some bronze door knockers.
After her presentation the group turned to a discussion of Where do Ideas come from? I believe that ideas come from a quest to understand those concepts and issues the artist believes are important. Merkel gets his best ideas from great music and movies. Matt related that his best ideas come from stirring photos of humanity at the breaking point. Betsy gets her best ideas from emotionally powerful books she has read.Mark gets his ideas from the intricate patterns in nature such as fragments of a skeleton.
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| Betsy Aguirre |
The meeting concluded with members sharing works in a critique. Mark Whoerle showed a ceramic sculpture of birds stacked one on top of the other. John Swauger showed a welded steel mule team pulling a wagon inspired by the Tumbleweeds comic. Merkel Mclendon shared one of his found object fish. Betsy Aguirre brought two pieces for feedback. One was a ceramic bas relief and the other was a 3d sculpture of a crouching female. Jerry Gabel showed a plaster, resin sculpture titled Blue Heron at Rest. I showed another one of my ceramic figure drums, and Matt Werner impressed everyone with his carved sculpture inspired by the works of Georgia Okeefe. His butternut rams head mounted on a burl was amazing for its intricacy of shape and marriage of idea and material.
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| Mark Cohen, John Swauger(center), Merkel Mclendon |
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| Jerry Gabel |
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