Hello.

Hey pears and peers
I have returned from the wondrous land of California. We had a good time which mainly involved eating at every vegan restaurant in San Francisco  and going to mold making supply stores. We voyaged into the mountains twice and into Nevada where I gambled on the roads and won myself a $200 speeding ticket.
Good times, but now I'm back in tennessee and back to work. I've been experimenting this week with things I got from the supply stores in frisco, various plasticines, waxes, and two new types of platinum silicone. I have some thermoplastics too with which I'm going to experiment with solid mask-making. I also have some special silicone-based paints on order for painting things cast in silicone. Where all of this is leading I have no idea, I only know that my interests are drifting towards the area of props and special effects, I've been reading a lot of stuff on those sorts of topics in any case. I enjoy my silicone/resin combo for little fantasy models but I'm starting to feel I've pushed that as far as I am willing to. Not saying I've mastered it by any stretch of the imagination but it's getting a little boring at this point and I want to work with more challenging materials. And casting silicone? that is freaking challenging!

So projects in the near future will be as follows:
Casting silicone in silicone
Casting silicone in gypsum
Maskmaking with thermoplastics
Molding with Fuzzform (thermoplastic fabric)
Maskmaking with silicone
Prosthetics

And, of course, the contest winning sculpture, which is underway now using Fuse wax, and commissions.


Oh and on a side note, even though hard plastiline is SOLID AND NOT A LIQUID, GEL, OR PASTE the TSA will still bitch you out about it. Well maybe I could pack it in my checked luggage if the airlines weren't fascists charging $50 for a bag and another load if it's overweight.
IN short, eff you airlines and airports and TSA.
They were however very impressed by my jar of mica flakes.