So I got to be a part of something cool yesterday. A local artist made cast iron bacon and eggs for a future top secret project. He used real bacon and real fried eggs for his pattern. They turned out rather nice with a little help from the guys in the foundry and myself.
Ok, I'll bite (pun intended)... How do you make real bacon and fried eggs hard enough to use as patterns? However it was done, that's pretty cool. Jeff
He coated them with clear lacquer and used baby powder for parting. Took doubling bacon slices to be thick enough...had to use the whites to make the eggs thick enough....cooked them first and then baked them and then coated them. He used chemically bonded sand for molds. Actually turned out pretty damn good.
Seems like your alginate Hands project might have suggested using the same material to make patterns of POP or maybe epoxy/thickener. Must have beeen a hoot. Denis BTW, how about closer photos?
What a waste of breakfast, perhaps I'm not arty enough. I did do several years at art college but that only really qualified me as being drunk through most of the lessons (Hey it worked for Turner) Perhaps we could have a lost chcken sub section David?
yeah really... lol Fowls are more a Zap thing. I'm into bronze bathroom fixtures like sinks and over sized butt plugs.
Carve three measly birds and now its a zap thing huh?? I gotta branch out. Maybe I'll try cast a Jason thing (bp)...