Matsya

Beautiful South Indian lost wax bronze

Lost Wax

So I started another lost wax project, getting some inspiration from both my clay models and a beautiful South Indian bronze of Vishnu as Matsya that I picked up in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. I bought some low melt metal from Tiranti's near Warren Street. The man assured me it was lead free pewter - however it seems to have a smidgeon of the stuff therein. Please wash your hands before you eat your rice & curry.

More Gel Flex Aums

Due to the success of last season's must have aum, I made a new clay model and a gel flex mould. I had to melt down the first one, as I forgot to create a significant enough clay wall and gulley around the object that could act as an edge once the mould was made. Anyway, the second go worked out fine:

Clay Models

I started my second year at Mary Ward by making some shapes in clay to give me inspiration. I found I liked the shapes I could make from rolling out the clay with a rolling pin and then forming an abstract shape by rolling, throwing or dropping the resultant clay sheet. Some were fired and one has so far been glazed with a metallic finish. The glaze took 3 coats and had to be set on blocks in the kiln as the glazed bottom would have glued it to the kiln surface! Sorry.

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