All Things Spangley

Well I have had a very productive weekend! Whilst taking the final castings from the Lawrence, Baldy and Claude medallion molds I had a bit of festive fun and made a few sparkly Christmas Tree decorations (ornaments). The pic above shows the six castings fresh from the mold, and the picture below show the almost finished article with the tri-colour hanging loop and little bow and bell attached - I have also made a couple of teeny tiny bits of holly, mistletoe and snowflakes that I will be adding to the finished decorations, but I couldn't resist taking a picture of this one on the tree!

I managed to get just one final u/p resin Baldy cast before the mold died, the Claude and Lawrence molds are still holding out, so in all this last weekend I got 10 Lawrences, 4 Claudes and the 1 Baldy in unpainted resin, plus 6 Xmas decorations, and a number of head-only castings in glitter; plus, I still have the Lawrence and Claude molds to make a few more of each. I have given myself until 31st to get as many as I can, but if the molds are still going by them I will finish regardless and that will be that. I started making the head-only castings in glitter to make into tree decorations, but the glitter hides the details and makes them look like blobs! So I had a look through my stock of different finishes and found the polished aluminium ones show the details best. This is why the finished decorations have an aluminium head on a sparkly background, I also added a touch of glitter to a couple of the auminium bits for added twinkle. The halogen tree lights really make the backgrounds twinkle, unfortunately I can't get my camera to catch the sparkliness at it's best! Finally, I have packed up TIBBP medallion, I have a new-found packaging friend in clingfilm, it's an excellent packaging material, cheers Deb for telling me about it!

Season's Greetings!!

Finally, this lovely model is complete! This is the medallion that represents The Blessed Broodmare Project, and I hope you all will find it as wonderful to paint or display it unpainted as I have found it to sculpt. . Sculpting this has been a pure pleasure, the mare knew exactly how she wanted to be from day 1 and her foal has progressed so nicely, I don't know if it is the positive energy coming from the members of TBBP Yahoo group (the group name is now out of date but cannot be changed sadly), Deb Buckler's wonderful emails or my good friend Beccy who is my (neglected) shoulder to cry on when I'm struggling :) Perhaps it's the knowledge that it will bring some good into the world that has made it such a joy to work on, but whatever it is, I don't believe I could have made such a lovely model without these things, so feel I can't take full credit for it's creation.

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Some lettering will be added to the base by Randy Buckler, as I'm hopeless at that sort of thing! I think it will say "The International Blessed Broodmare Project" but I don't know for sure.

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I will be posting this original off in the next few days to Resins by Randy, and then I should have prices. All proceeds will go to TIBBP.

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The medallion is of a mare and a fuzzy foal, laying on a grassy base with the odd dandelion leaf and a comfrey flower to the side. The comfrey symbolises Healing, Growing Together, and Unity, which I believe is very important to this piece.

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I will be updating my website shortly so you will be able to find further images there shortly. For those who aren't aware my website is www.kelly-savage.com, there is also a link on my profile to the right of this post.

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On Another note, I'm closing the editions of the medallions Lawrence, Baldy and Claude this month, I will have to see how many I get from the molds before I can say how many were made, but I am planning to make a few Christmas tree decorations (ornaments) using the molds too. I'll only be making a few but it's very exciting!