Emma McGrath: Casting, Casting and more Casting

This week I went a bit mental with the casting, I ended up spending the whole week doing cast after cast after cast in different ed ones and mixing my own colored wax so i could get the desired effect.

I then experimented with dropping the pigments into the wax so you could see the inky like pigment when it dried.

I ended up with about 18-20 crab claws in different shapes and colors.

The hard part is to figure out what I'm going to do with them, hang them, line them up? make a wearable piece? and installation??

I also asked Pat if he would do some in resin for me, which i really like, but its annoying being only able to do 2 and then leave them to dry for 12 hours, where as with the wax I could knock ten or so out in a day and in as many colors as I like. If i had it my way I would do it all in resin, all resin. But I don't have enough molds, and I'm fairly sure there isint enough resin for just a 1st year to take.

Towards the end of the week I made more molds of actual crab shells. They were very strange looking and didn't exactly look like crabs at all.

I really liked them though and cast them in wax in different colors but ended up casting a lot in a green-ish yellow color which was very effective and made them look like something else entirely .

Sewing into my wax molds.