finish pieces for flourish exhibition

casting the matt wax gun elements

finished bridal hair chain

matt wax gun and batik tool

figure 1

figure 1 shows paisley patterns made using the batik tool on the right with injecting and beeswax mixture and the left shows the matt wax gun with blue wax.

figure 2

figure 2 shows the close up of figure 1 that was done using the batik tool. What im tying to do is make the pattern more 3 dimensional by turning them over and making blobs on the other side.

figure 3

figure 4

figure 3 and 4 shows the patterns that are flat on the back and raised on the front.

figure 5

figure 6

figure 5 and 6 shows the detail both on the front and the back of the elements.

figure 7

figure 7 are patterns made using 3 different waxes with the matt wax gun. I started with the blue,then the red and then the green. I found the red and green wax works the best when the gun is on medium heat the blue wax needs to be used at a higher tempreture as opposed to the green and red wax.

wax elements with batik tool

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figure 2

figure 3

figure 1,2,3 shows the tree built with the moulded elements

figure 4

figure 5

figure 6

figure 4,5,6 shows the casted elements linked together making a beautiful chain

bridal head accessory

this was a picture given to me by my cousin who is getting married and wants two bridal head pieces. she also asked if i could add my mehndi touch to i and tweak it so that it looks like its mehndi-like.
these were my designs.

some patterns were of Roome's were similar to that of the picture reference given to me by my cousin

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using wax rolling worked well for these small elements

i aslo spend one entire day piercing this one element and filing it and sanding it to make it perfect so that i could make a mould of them and cast.

and my hand pieced flowers. lloks like everything is slowly coming together.

wax and water

so another option for drawing with wax on a non-stick surface besides silicone would be water,it will be exciting to see what comes out of this experiment.

 The water just pulls the liquid wax out of the wax tool,it does this in both hot and cold tap water but its alot faster in cold water.at first i thought its beacuse the wax was too liquid but then i waited for it to slightly cool and the it just makes blobs that wont stick togther because of the water.

beautiful flower/star and fan shapes began to appear created by the water drawing out the wax from the tool.

although this technique makes beautiful shapes by chance this technique will never work to create detailed mehndi patterns.