Drawing Casts

[arcticpost]

Mr O'Hanlon, is there an ETA on the larger set of geometric solids?

[George O'Hanlon]

Articpost,

The larger set (more pieces) of geometric solids will be available early next month.

[Ribera]

Great Caproni casts may be pro-
cured at Boston's The Giust Gal-
lery; actually made from the
real classical works.
http://www.giustgallery.com/index.php.
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[John Kennedy]

One could have much fun making their own castings using Prima Professional Grade Plastilina. It is easy to work with, it is an all natural material and is sulfur free. Its cousin Roma Plastilina is also great to use. They are available in different grades of soft for large projects, medium for average size projects, medium firm for smaller projects and very hard for small figures, madallions and reliefs. No mater the choice of materials, it is the fun in making the project yourself, casting it and then using your own casts for your studies and drawing. Give it a shot, you just might like it.

[John Kennedy]

Another fun way of making drawing cast is to carve them out of styrofoam. You can do complete life size sculptures if you want, or miniture size. The key to finishing them though for painting gets a bit tricky though. Once you do the sculpture you want, you can do a couple of methods that I have found worked for me. After getting it as smooth as possible, size the entire piece, paint it with several thin coats of gesso, sand smooth and paint with acrylic paint. For large pieces that are more museum grade, you would have to have a fiberglass resin coating to make the piece solid. This can be accomplished by using 3M 77 spray adhesive and applying a layer of tin foil to seal the styrofaom, as fiberglass resins will disolve the styro foam. Once sealed you apply fiberglass and fiberglass resin to the entire surface of the project. Our shop has a special gun for this step that sprays cut up fiberglass threads on a spool and mixes with the resin spray, but you would have to used sheet material, as this gun setup cost over 15K and is for large production work. After the fiberglass and resin is dry then you complete the work with a two part artist epoxy for all your detail work. Once the detail workis finished and sanded your ready to prime and paint with any kind of paint you want.