{"id":347,"date":"2016-03-24T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/24\/new-projects\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T20:21:00","slug":"new-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/24\/new-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"New Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I started taking a landscape class and restarted making pavers.
I also got down to the Tidal Basin in DC and drew the cherry blossoms.
The landscape class is a weekly workshop at the Schuler School of Fine art in Baltimore. The first day produced a half-finished landscape:<\/p>\n

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As stated, I’ve started making pavers again. I started by purchasing a 12″x12″ concrete paver from Home Depot. Then I made a mold of it using Smooth-On Rebound 25 with a Smoothe-On Shell Shock mother mold. Into this mold, I then cast microcrystalline wax on which I will make designs. Then, I will make a mold of the wax paver with designs and cast multiple “fine art” pavers with designs on them.
All set up for mold making:<\/p>\n

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The finished mold with wax ready to be melted and poured into the mold:<\/p>\n

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The finished wax duplicate:<\/p>\n

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Lastly, I visited the famous cherry blossoms in Washington, DC and drew them:<\/p>\n

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This week, I started taking a landscape class and restarted making pavers. I also got down to the Tidal Basin in DC and drew the cherry blossoms.The landscape class is a weekly workshop at the Schuler School of Fine art in Baltimore. The first day produced a half-finished landscape: As stated, I’ve started making pavers again. I started by purchasing… Continue reading “New Projects”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}