Carrying on with the use of every day containers to cast in I created a new polyptych called In Line. In this piece I used a martini glass with a rolled piece of bond paper as a barrier between the glass and the wax which also acted as my release agent. It was a bit tricky to get the paper to take the shape of the glass and maintain a cylindrical shape so that the final casting was 4 1/2″ dia and not irregular. Trial and error.
These pieces are solid wax mounted on to a 4 1/2″ dia wood base and wall hung. Originally I was trying to cast hollow to reduce the expense of using so much wax. In the end I realized that in order maintain the integrity and achieve the final result they had to be cast solid.
