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Published: 2008-06-11 19:33:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 308; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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Vanity in all it's glory. I can now join the league of painters who prominently display their hand in artwork because they're so fantastic. This glass hand is an exact copy of my own, which I made in an attempt to find a better mold making process. Needless to say i succeeded.Before I melted it out, the wax version of this was so good it had my finger prints on it
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Wow! o_O
Hey, so what material have you done this and the other sculptures (like the drowning one) in? It's got such a lovely luminescence about it. Is it really glass?
Anyway, it's really cool. 
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yup yup its totally glass, and let me tell you it was not fun to sculpt in its wax stage. even after it was in the mold its head kept falling off.
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Eep. >_< Head falling off.
You know, before you replied to my comments and things, I didn't even know you used wax in the process of glass sculpture. If you don't mind me asking, how does that work?
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well first you carve or pour wax into a mold so you get the shape of whatever you want in glass. then you make a plaster/silica coating over the wax. then you steam out the wax so you have a mold with a hollow negative of whatever the object was. then you do some nifty measurements and add the right amonth of glass in it and throw it in the kiln forever. after it cools and you break it out of the plaster mold you have a glass thingy.
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Wow; didn't realise you had to go through so many molds. o_O Really interesting; thanks for the info. ^_^ I had no idea it could be done that way -I guess I've just got the traditional glass-blowing image stuck in my mind. X3
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