Medal #3

I Still need to polish this bad boy up. 

The other side of the medal:  (the difference in colour is due to poor lighting)

 

Bee

Silver Bee

Managed to get some better photos of the Silver Bee Pin today.

Bronze honeycomb

Silver Bee Pin

On a honey comb base . Cast in solid silver as a Christmas gift for my mum.

It's hard to get a good photo of this as it's silver on silver. This casting came out so well! All the legs and wings came out.

Medal attempt #1

Medal #1

Heres the wax version.

The bees didnt come out as well.

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. 

Bee and Honey Comb

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

Honey comb attempt 3

This is my 3rd attempt at honey comb casting. 

It didn't rise as much as I wanted to, but I quite like the effect that its had. 

The decayed look fits in perfectly with my save the bees project.

You can also see through to the other side of the honey comb and can see where I filled the other side with wax.

I also coated this in a layer of ammonia powder to give it a darker colouring.