Ready…Set…Whoa!
May 28th, 2009 Posted in creatingSo, I’de like to report that all my endeavors have been pulled off without a hitch…not so. The day before Mothers day, I poured about $200 of PMC Rubber, nasty stuff, on my “chosen few” paintings. The idea was to create perfect molds from which to make easy reproductions and then bask in the glory of a job well done with less airborne particles and more choices for the consumer in color and style.
Well, I forgot one last detail. One of the 500+ details that went into making and preparing the piece for the task. I didn’t screw down my paintings to the boxes they were being cast in and they started to float in the rubber!!! It was a toxic mess! I managed to scrape some of the setting rubber off the bottom of two of the small paintings and create 3 small imperfect molds. The plaster pieces that come out of these molds need filling and sanding… and filling and sanding… and then a piece of door skin cut to size, and then re-cut to be flush after being glued and clamped and sanded and filled one last time…before painting and signing and sealing the work to be hung on a cool, inset, metallic rivet.
So, when all is said and done, I have some serious hours put in to the eye candy that will be brought bubble wrapped to the city next week! I am hoping to have at least three of each new piece to choose from. I gotta get crackin’- there is plenty more sanding a filling to do before show time.