Sculpture

More amazing stuff! Great work Lauren!

Thanks April!


Got back to more work on my tortoise

Have you tried growing borax crystals on stuff?

I have! the only issue I have with the borax crystal is that they are not stable. It takes about a year or so but eventually the crystals turn chalky white. I've solved this by coating them in resin, but in the end it's just easier to add real crystal.

This is a set of ram horns that I crystalized with boarax (as well as have a few quartz on there). I had to coat them in resin to keep the crystals from falling off.



I then mounted these on a black bear mount that I did along with crystals.

Well that's kinda lame (powdery crystals, the mount is insane), I was thinking of trying it out on some old cattle bones I have laying around, but maybe burning in some designs might look better

Thanks! the bear is on my wall, he's my pride and joy.

Yeah, the borax really isn't stable enough for long term and if you just use a spray lacquer instead of a resin (which is a pain to work with) the borax will actually pop off with some force!

I've also been working with real quartz, apoxie sculpt, and a mixture of paint on real bone:

Bear skull:

Bobcat skull?

I could do a bobcat skull, but the pic is of a bear skull. It's huge.

Sculpt all done. Time for paint!

All painted!