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Hi Melody,
Wishing you, John and family an Happy new year!
I was wondering how you get the stone effect on the pillar and some gargoyles when sculpting. What do you use and when?
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Ancient Chinese Secret. She can’t tell us how she does everything. I would think it would lead to more copies of Windstones
I’m guessing a coarse sandpaper pressed on it while it is still reasonably soft, that’s what I use when I am repairing them, and it seems to match up very well.
That’s my guess anyway.
Kyrin
Blackdesertwind wrote:Hi Melody,
Wishing you, John and family an Happy new year!I was wondering how you get the stone effect on the pillar and some gargoyles when sculpting. What do you use and when?I use different things: the the texture of the first gargoyles I did (such as the large cat gargoyle) was done by using stamps I made from stone surfaces on the wet clay. That was a pain.
The later ones were textured by casting the clay sculpture into soft plaster mixed with sand, and scraping down the whole thing, so that the sand is on the surface. This was a pain too. The sand was never evenly dispersed throughout the sculpture, so Dhey and I spent a lot of time carefully hand “pecking” the texture back onto the bald spots. It is hard to peck a texture that looks like the sand! In fact the two methods looked so different from each other that I started using the two “stone” texture techniques to give contrasting markings to the cats. The dark stripes of the mother cat in the “Cats Cradle” are pecked out by hand, the lighter stripes are the sand finish.[/]
Although I bet it wouldn’t work for any of the sculpting processes Melody uses, through pure serendipity I’ve found a good way to produce a stone texture on wet uncured apoxie sculpt: a crinkled up paper towel! I found this out while I was dabbing off a wet spot. It helps if the towel is one of those ‘cheap’ rough ones, not the nice soft ones with the imprinted patterns. If you create crinkles in a certain direction, and then press it on, it comes off looking very much like folded fabric or skin. I’ve used that trick when covering over seam lines between pieces on some dinosaur models I’m building. It looks like elephant skin!
Sometimes techniques can come from the oddest places, I guess!
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Well I was wrong, that sounds really complicated and frustrating.
Have you considered experimenting with sandpaper? I’ve discovered using it to press the texture on repair work works really well, I’m thinking it would work on a sculpty surface before casting into plaster.
I use a really coarse sandpaper for repairing the gargoyles.
Just a thought.
Kyrin
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