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SPark wrote:
Karen is hooking me up with red-eyed ki-rins. She is awesome! (So is Susan, who is the other person there I’ve e-mailed lots.) I asked who I needed to bribe, and Karen said to bribe her. Which I know is a joke, but I wanted to send her a tiny little “bribe” anyhow.
But I need to know what Karen’s favorite color is. Anybody know?I don’t know . Is “Cat” a color? Her entire desk space is covered in cat pics.Her other favorite color is “Carmel corn”
ddvm wrote:Have you thought of doing a PYO guinea pig? Thanks
Yes I have. Can you imagine what Watergazer or dragOnfeathers would do with it?
Zelda wrote:Hi Melody! I have a question about your casting process: how do you create such wonderfully bubble-free casts? I work in my school’s fossil preparation lab where we mold and cast all sorts of things in all sorts of materials. We often use plaster and gypsum stone, but have a lot of trouble with keeping bubbles from appearing on the surface of our casts, and occupying the ‘tips’ of our casts. The common method for reducing the bubbles is tapping the molds once they’re poured, but this never gets rid of the problem. Do you guys have some sort of vaccuming process which eliminates air from the slurry before or after it’s poured?
Sorry for the long question, thanks a lot! Sorry this took so long to answer, part of my New Year’s resoultion is to spend less time onlne,and more time drawing. Silly, really.
I can’t answer specific questions about our casting process because we kinda worked it out over many years and it is sort-of our secret. However I will say that we don’t have a magic method and we get lots of bubbles too! (A long paintbrush can be used get out the deep bubbles) Sometimes it has to do with the batch of plaster, or the weather… or the person doing the casting! Just the hand that pours it seems to make a difference in the amount of bubbles. It is totally Voodoo.CherylKaufman wrote:I must admit though- precious few of those people look happy 🙁
This was the last pic of about eight that we took.
Everyone was ready to leave, and we said ONE MORE! That’s why the less-than-perfect expressions.
This ended up being the only pic, because the other camera didn’t have it’s memory card in it!skigod377 wrote:Just out of curiosity…how many constitutes a “batch?”
With SKs a batch is six or eight . I need to count them.
frozendragon wrote:Melody wrote:I meant the gypsun takes that long to dry after they are cast. The paint we use dries almost instantly when we airbrush it on.
yeah…aren’t we still waiting for some sitting spectrals to dry….
*hint*hint*
ok now I’m gonna hide in a corner before Melody throws something at me…. 😈 I’ve got a batch of dry S.K.’s… what to do with them though? I was considering just doing them as BIN s in some regular color. But, if you guys are trying to pay off your credit cards, what’s the point?
I’ll try this.
AH! Ok. This is a real sign at the end of our street. It is in front of our elementary school.
CAUTION, CHILDREN!
Somebody eventually picked off the gun sticker.http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=144107331/PictureID=2680878213/a=84248058_84248058/t_=84248058
This is a good place to test the image posting thing.
Dang didn’t work. I don’t get it.I meant the gypsun takes that long to dry after they are cast. The paint we use dries almost instantly when we airbrush it on.
emerald212 wrote:Melody wrote:skigod377 wrote:Melody wrote:skigod377 wrote:Goals, resolutions?
Are you asking me? Or did this just get posted in the wrong place?
Yes, it was for you. 😆
Oh, well, my New Year’s resolutions are always to continue the old New Year’s resolutions I’ve had in the past.I’ve noticed that they don’t go away from last year. I am still working on flossing my teeth every night, which I haven’t been, and keeping my Grandmother’s African violets alive. I have kept one alive.
This year my old resolution is to do at least SOME of my comic.Even a few pages would be something! If I can just do the part about the poads …Oh and I want to learn more about grammer. You probably think I am kidding. None of that dieting crap for me.Is that is an incomplete sentence?If you need help with grammar, you can pm me. I’m an English comp teacher (and grad student) at SCSU.OK!
copper83 wrote:So, now that you have the cement pouring process worked out, will you try this one again? I know I’d like to see them.
One of the things I have learned in this business is that if something doesn’t sell, it doesn’t sell, and nothing will fix that. Except wings.
Melody wrote:CherylKaufman wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:CherylKaufman wrote:And the not eating sugars thing …I do so poorly at that 🙁 But alas- I WILL try.
But not before your chocolates arrive, right?
EeeeGads no!! Not before the chocolate arrives! I meant regular candy- not special foods sent to me by forum members!Don’t we sell those?I think everyone should resolve to do something you really want to do, for fun, that you haven’t gotten around to doing. This would be in addition to the yucky no-fun self-improvement ones everybody comes up with.What would be your fun one?
CherylKaufman wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:CherylKaufman wrote:And the not eating sugars thing …I do so poorly at that 🙁 But alas- I WILL try.
But not before your chocolates arrive, right?
EeeeGads no!! Not before the chocolate arrives! I meant regular candy- not special foods sent to me by forum members!Don’t we sell those? Dang, did I quote the wrong thing again? I meant; don’t we sell the foot things?
