Medal attempt #2

Medal attempt #2

No bees and a circular shape. 

I still need to clean it up and file down the edges. 

Silver stag

Medal attempt #1

Medal #1

Heres the wax version.

The bees didnt come out as well.

Lakeside Project

Lakeside Project

For this project we had to create a piece which was inspired by the artifacts at Lakeside Arts Center - Nottingham.
For my inspiration I chose these two iron age broaches.

 I made rings in bronze and silver using the lost wax casting process. I wanted the rings to have a rough edge to them, but have the same pattern as the broaches.

Here you can see the spru I used to cast the rings. - looks a lot like a belt buckle here!

Silver Ring:

Im planning on selling them as a set of stack able rings.

 

I need to polish them more in order to get a better shine out of them. 

The Beeswax Art of Penelope Stewart

This stuff is amazing -

http://canadianartjunkie.com/2013/02/22/the-beeswax-architecture-of-penelope-stewart/

All Sprued Up

 BAMS: MEDAL 

Here you can see my medal all sprued up, The red wax around the edge is what the metal will travel round when its cast. The more sprues the better.

looks a little bit like a love heart.

I had to add wax to the underside of the bees to try and insure that they will come out when I cast them. 

It a little messy. But hopefully it I will be able to neaten it once its cast.

The black stuff at the bottom is also wax - its a softer version.

BAMS: British Art Medal Society

So for my project im creating a medal for BAM (http://www.bams.org.uk/default.php).
there are a number of guide lines but basically you can do a medal on a subject of your choice.
I chose the save the bees campaign and all the bee related work you have seen so far, has been for this project.

Today I finished my the master for my medal -

so one side is the man rolled honey comb shape which is used as a foudation for bee keepers and is made out of natural wax. This time I decided to put the bees legs apart in order to make them look more alive - this was not easy.

this is the other side of the medal - its natural honey comb made by bees. I purposely crumbled some of the honey comb so that it has a distressed feel to it

(the bees - my mum keeps bees and these ones you see here were unfortunately killed off by the frost earlier this year) 

Honey Comb Close up

So amazing to think that this was all created by little bees. 

I love the edge of honey comb. You can really see how the comb is angled so that the honey doesnt drip out and how the cells are placed to give the comb strength. 

Time for her close up!

Finally some close ups! 

This was before I polished them.

 Im seriously obsessed with how well its come out and all the details you can see when you have a closer look.

Bee and Honey Comb

Just a quick idea of what my final medal piece might look like.