More Monkey Business

Yes, I'm Dog Boy , the Mini-Cow farmer . It had to come out eventually.

 

WEll, no hurry, and no chance of stuff being sold before you want it, if you end up there

 

Thanks! Yours are Very Cool . I did a little bit of lost wax. Tried a few seed pods and flowers, but was mostly involved in
silversmithing and also model making (by way of silversmithing/fabrication skills) for production lost wax
(and metal mold, and rubber mold) casting. In my former life in this body, that is...

 

Only here !

 

Yeah, I was gone for that . You are welcome ! I have something going with one of the stones from you.
The vague idea started with that stone



But I found this blue thing that I finished the idea with instead. I'll do something else with your dino bone stone.

 

and for those of yous who missed it : the back of the blue Chalcedony piece .
I got impatient and a little sloppy

 

That was close to their limit. We got some real dirty looks when they found out I had taken
one roll of shots without film in the camera. Had to dress em up again

 

People do a lot these days with metal clay. I could've taught some stuff about fabrication,
but worked in other areas only superficially. I did have some fun collecting flower material
but didn't wax it up thick enough, plus the seed pods didn't burn out well = poor castings.

Here's more of what I do now. Well, a group shot of recent parts from dies made in the last year or so.
All with the "Pancake" type of cutting die like the snake.

 

Kokopelli :
Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player, who has been venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture. He is also a trickster god and represents the spirit of music.
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It's just a semi-random selection of interesting designs I was either commissioned to make, or made as experiments.
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Interesting about the flowers. I would spray them with acrylic and then wax dip . I got some thick enough to work. I had some castings stolen from where I was working at. That sucked ! I have some digitized slides coming soon.
One is of some casted trees (you know what I mean) ; I'm not sure if anything will show up well, but I'll post if it does.