Preparing the image to pour the wax wax detail central figure One more weeks work with inks, reheating, additions, manipulations and engraving. I drive to Waterloo at the end of the week to get the soil from the battlefield to set into the foreground of the final image.
Author: Ingrid Barber
Waterloo 200 progress: fine tuning soldiers and attaching pewter friezes
Come to the Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, Private View this Friday April 17, 6 til 9!
“If These Walls Could Speak” “Goodbye “, 2015, Oil, 80×100 canvas
Exhibition at the Crypt in London: First showing of the complete “If These Walls Could Speak” collection
Corner gallery “Sky” exhibition April 14 -30 May www.facebook/thecornergallery&gifts
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Waterloo 200 progress : Composition work, still at least 2 weeks away from pouring the wax. More maquettes…larger soldiers en route
Mocking up composition before the wax goes on, several elements still to be resolved, waiting on larger soldiers delivery
Waterloo 200 progress: experiments with soil samples and wax, more casting, hundreds of toy soldiers…
soil experiment board spray painting toy soldiers working with multiple elements : farm, sky, soldiers, soil
Waterloo 200 progress : Chopping up horses, pewter casting airfix soldiers, planning composition
Waterloo 200: Sky research and sourcing materials (plastic horses). Soldiers in the post….
Turner sky and my photos trawling ebay for horses action and movement
Project for “Waterloo 200” – Maquettes, research, process
experiment with encaustic to create sky Pouring the wax onto painted maquette of toy soldiers and horses removal of wax and layering more wax with heat gun detail sky final maquette, next, scale up and combine elements….