Mum n bub

Today i went back to the foundry for another morning of watching the big dude get finished. He got a top coat of ferric to warm the buffed thru bronze & then it got waxed. While i hung round i finished the horse & made a woman holding a baby. The horse just needed a little notch in the leg on the bad side to make it look more like i meant it & then the gravity went the right way & it passed my quality control. The little mum n bub was going to go with a soldier, but i never finished the soldier. The mum n bub is OK tho. I made her first on "pins", like they used to call women's legs, but literal, they were like legs that ended in points. That was to make her look kinda feminine i guess. it worked anyway & i changed them to feet later, with slippers on. The little bub is funny he actually has a face even tho he is very small.

I've almost never made female figure sculptures at all, but hey this could be the start of a whole new area to explore. After all that means there's 50% of the world population of humans that i haven't made eh.

I'm quite taken with the set up they got in the foundry for wax work. In my studio i never have any open pots of molten wax, i just have a hot water bottle. Bit crap, i now realise, and tho i had prided myself on the simplicity & awesome focus & function of my tools, its only in comparison to nothing, hey. I could work *much* faster with a set up like this. 4 open pots of different temperatures, set into a big stainless steel work table, so you can easily scrape it all down, and in fact the table is slightly warm too, just as a side effect of housing the warm wax pots, and the wax comes off it easy with a gentle scrape. Nearby is a huge open container of water to cool things. Bloody lovely.