Month: October 2011

Think Small 6 finished piece:

Two Bees Under Glass.  2 7/8 Inches

Some quick preparatory sketches:

I was invited to participate in a show called Think Small which takes place every year in Richmond VA and displays work no bigger than 3X3 inches.  I thought I’d do something with bees and this is what I came up with.

It’s two bees touching heads.  They’re roughly 1 inch from wing to wing.  This is it in red wax:

After I was happy with the wax sculpture I took it to a jeweler, Tito Castings in NYC, who proceeded to make a silicone mold and pour it in silver.

Here are some before and after clean up pictures:

Before: Notice the sprues at the base of the bees abdomens.

After:

I bought a small glass dome, from glassdomes.com, and I’m going to attempt to drill a tiny hole in the top.  I want the bees to be hanging suspended in the dome.  Hopefully I will have some photographs of the finished piece soon.

I think this was  a good test for the larger more complicated Bee Flower sculpture I’m still laboriously laboring over.  I really didn’t think the legs and antenna would come out, but Tito Castings did a beautiful job.  I’ve completed two petals for one flower, the end is no where near in sight.

Info on Think Small 6