[TheForge] ABANA conference

[Chris Worsley]

Jeff,
It looks like he uses plasticene, an oil based modeling clay. The kind I 
think he uses is white, and there are some small pieces on the table in 
some of the pictures that have been posted.
One of the students (Frank) on his website has some on his table too.
Using plasticene or plastilene lets you work a lot quicker because you 
don't have to deal with the heating of pitch and the cleaning off of the 
piece each time you switch to the other side.
When you use something other than pitch, annealing more often is very 
important. I have found that you have to have the copper as soft as 
possible for as long as possible when using the clay. It (clay) does not 
get as hard as the pitch and offers less resistance to the tools.  
I was amazed by the detail he gets with clay. I switch to pitch for that 
kind of tiny detail at the end of the process.

Chris
AZ

Jeffrey Polaski wrote:

>Wow. That's some incredible stuff. 
>
>It says he doesn't use pitch. I wonder if he uses anything for a backing
>material. On the "How It's Done" page the work looks like it elevated,
>with a block of something under it. Does anyone know what that block is?
>
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>Anyone have more on how he does it? 
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>Jeff Polaski
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>I was really impressed with Dadyan's work. He teaches classes too.
>http://www.melicdadayanart.com/index2.html
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>Steve
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>Chris Worsley wrote:
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>>Thanks! Good shooting.
>>Especially liked the series on repousse.
>>
>>Chris
>>AZ
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>>Steve Smith wrote:
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>>>Ok, you asked for 'em, you got 'em.
>>>
>>>I put a selection of the photos I took on my web page. I shrank all 
>>>the photos and compressed the directory--it is now only 5Meg. You'll 
>>>really wish you had broadband if you don't:
>>>
>>>http://users.frii.com/sos/Steve/
>>>The file name is AbanaAbridged.zip
>>>
>>>Steve
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