Sunday, February 21, 2021

Experimenting with cement

 

Fiona and I have been experimenting with cement. We have many ideas how we might use it in our art - as addition to outdoor pieces; as letters-words; and small sculptures.

We experimented with the letters over a month ago - but on Wednesday we decided to test some other silicone moulds we have purchased. The photo above is a faceted heart; and the photo below shows Fiona getting her hands well and truely dirty.


Following are some finished bits. The tiny house is a pencil-pen holder - very cute.






I excavated a rusted metal peace dove out of the cube of cement - releasing peace? It was bit off centre but another lesson learnt.


Today I attached the word love and a heart to a cube of timber - more lessons learnt on how to attach the cement letters to the timber.

Whilst waiting for glue to dry I mixed a small batch of cement and filled a few moulds - including the tiny house, hearts and new pebble moulds.

I love peeling the silicone back to release the cured cement. Now we know how it works we will get into a bit of production I think.

4 comments:

  1. Wonderful! Oh the possibilities!

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  2. P, MC and J - thanks for checking out this bit of creative madness - always grand to be testing the possibility of new mediums. Go well. B

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