More Fun with Wax

 Lots of waxes made, would have been good to make more but time is a factor.

The next stage is to attach the wax sculptures to wax poles (just a cylindrical length of wax). Sounds easy but far from straight forward.

Hot plate on and tools heating up... The trick is to hold the wax cylinder and the piece close together, insert the heated flat tool between them, slightly squeeze together and slide out the tool.

Oh yes, without burning yourself on the tool, dropping the waxes or dropping burning wax on yourself. (hint: it hurts)

3 attached

attached to the bowl

Next, a thicker cylinder is attached to the bowl/bucket and the smaller ones attaached to that. They are upside down at the moment.

New Gallery

Two members of the flock are now for sale at Larks Gallery  in Ballater! 

The owner is a very lovely lady called Pip and I'm so pleased that my work is getting out into the world.

'Poised'

  

'White Bird'

Of course I forgot to take the wee 'care of your sculpture' zine so they are being posted tomorrow.

We had an excellent walk too.

Larks Gallery, Ballater

News today is that I was approached by the owner of Larks Gallery, Ballater to show some of my pieces in her gallery.

Things are looking up.

Of course I checked out the website and she has some very beautiful artworks there so going to take the two latest pieces up on Sunday. Even get a day out.

More news and images to follow.

Cupar Arts Eden

The sea ice moved slowly as the ferry passed, and from the shore, the solid ice held the silence.

Archipelago Series #I

This is the very first (at the moment) of a  series of 10 images inspired by the archipelagos in the Baltic Sea, between Stockholm, Mariehamn, Turku and Helsinki.

The trip was for my sister's birthday and that happened to be in March. Maybe not the best time to go (locals were a little surprised to see us at that time of the year) but with Brexshit in process we decided to go then.

Therefore the weather wasn't always the best. During the ferry journeys it was often very windy, wet and mostly snowing. Quite glorious in it's own way. Whe we did see the islands in passing they were sometimes almost completely obscured by snow but the ice near their shores was thick and undulating slowly as the boat passed by.

 

Another two from the Archipelago Series. 

The series is being exhibiting as part of Cupar Arts Eden, an art trail in Cupar, Fife, Scotland.

Cupar Arts is a voluntary community charity. It aims to combine high quality arts events with community involvement focusing around Cupar’s public and natural assets. Really pleased to have been picked to exhibit.