Re: POTC medaillon - first result
That's what I love about this place, all the wonderful and different techniques people come up with!
I don't really understand what all you did there because I don't know what window color is.
Window color is...something hard to describe when you don't know it :lol
Perhaps you know it when you see a picture of it:
If that doesn't help, it is some kind of water-based acrylic paint. you make the contours with special contour-colors and fill the gaps with other colors that are more liquid. When it's dry, you can compare the consistency with...thin plastic that sticks to flat surfaces. You can stick it to your windows (that's where the name comes from), and remove it without any traces.
If that still doesnt help (actually I have to admit that I don't know if they sell this stuff in America), I guess you can compare at least the contour color to Puffy Paint (which I only know from BlindSquirrel's blog :lol he uses this stuff here:
Blind Squirrel Props: The Lord of the Rings: Helm of Sauron, Lord of Mordor)
I'm not much good at carving, as I've proved many times :wacko, just can't work in the subtractive, can't handle "when it's gone, it's gone" or "when it's gouged, it's gouged"!! So I'm really interested in any additive techniques--is that what this amounts to?
Shylaah
Well, I think yes. When you carve, you make a negative, of which you can pull a positive. With my technique, you make a faux-positive (window-color), of which you make a negative (wax mold).
So you only add window color (or puffy paint, or something comparable) on a picture, and can make a mold of it. The only problem with this idea is that is that you can't use every material you want to make your mold, as your surface is paper (at least it was here, but Ill try to improve that method), so I don't think that you can use every silicone normally used for molds because it would stick to the paper.
What I have planned so far is to make a better window-color-faux-positive of the coin, make a new wax negative of this, and then, because I want to cast the coins with metal (and the wax would melt when pouring liquid metal in it), make a positive out of silicone, which I will use to make a negative out of plaster (I know, sounds complicated, if you know a better solution for making a mold that will stand the heat of liquid metal, please tell me).
And here's what I meant with you can't use every material, it would be easier to make a plaster-negative directly from the faux-positive, but as long as my surface is paper, the water in the plaster would probably destroy the paper and the positive.
But I'll talk about that again when it's done :lol
Think this is a pretty cool start MadMike :thumbsup!
It's a complex image goin' on in that medaillon, so if you nail this, you'll be
uber-cool
Thank you for the kind words. uber-cool...that sounds good
I'll keep you updated