Casting

Here is my first attempt at making my wax model, I wanted the organic, nature, vessel effect; almost like these could be little flower buds or something. I was not content with this, as I couldn't clean up the wax enough as the one I was using was too soft, but it would have been difficult to use any harder wax. I tried it again, but using a different technique and different wax.

Here it is, my final wax model. So I used the technique of melting tiny, scrap parts of wax, over an alcohol lamp until they ball up, leaving them cool a little and dropping them on to the base of my ring, so that they stay as a ball. If I drop the ball when it is still too hot, it would just completely melt on to the piece. I wanted to do this technique, to get a textured and layered ring. I really enjoyed doing this!