Here's an interesting commission we were given by Batman Sign Art in St. Albans as part of a sign project for a restaurant called Some Kind of Wonderful. It's a little 8" diameter whistling sun! Pic #1 is the design drawing supplied to us. Pic #2 is the finished clay sculpture. Pic #3 is the urethane mold being made. The urethane is a semi-transparent amber color so you can see the sculpture underneath it. Pic #4 is the inside of the mold once it's been removed from the sculpture. Okay, now the real cool stuff. Pic #5 is the liquid plastic having just been poured into the mold. Pic #6 is after about five minutes. You can see the plastic starting to gel and turn an off-white on the inside surface of the mold. Pic #7 is at about fifteen minutes when the gelling process really starts to spread rapidly through the plastic creating the most interesting shapes. Pic #8 is about a minute later and the gelling is nearly completed. Pic #9 is the finished plastic copy of the Sun after it has been allowed to sit for about six hours before being pulled from the mold. Ah, the magic of chemistry! I don't have an image of the finished painted product because Batman Sign Art will be painting it and that hasn't been finished yet, but I'll post a shot as soon as get one.
2 comments:
Very cool. I wondered how stuff like that was done.
Steve, you should visit Dale's studio in Hurricane sometime... it's fascinating!
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