{"id":275,"date":"2011-06-01T21:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T01:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2011-06-02T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T11:23:38","slug":"june-1-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"June 1 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been able to complete a bit more work on the Bee Flower  sculpture.\u00a0 I made a mold of some real bees, using a pliable rubber  called Dragon Skin, and cast them in red wax.\u00a0 I was able to pull bee  bodies and heads from the molds, but no wings or antenna.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The wings  and antenna are too delicate to be poured in metal, so it&#8217;s something  I&#8217;ll have to add to the final cast metal sculpture in any case.<\/p>\n<p>The  bees come out in wax needing quite a bit of clean up and chasing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s  a project that&#8217;s going to take a long time, I&#8217;m estimating around 1.000  to 1,200 bees for one Bee Flower sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures of one petal in red wax:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wax-bees-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-276\" title=\"wax bees 6\" src=\"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wax-bees-6-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wax-bees-6-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wax-bees-6-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wax-bees-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-277\" title=\"wax bees 1\" src=\"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wax-bees-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wax-bees-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wax-bees-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The red wax is a little hard to photograph because it&#8217;s reflective, but I  think this gives a pretty good idea of what it will look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been able to complete a bit more work on the Bee Flower sculpture.\u00a0 I made a mold of some real bees, using a pliable rubber called Dragon Skin, and cast them in red wax.\u00a0 I was able to pull bee bodies and heads from the molds, but no wings or antenna.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The wings and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;June 1 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tommonsees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}