September 07 2007 | What's below the waterline #2

Here's another view. You may notice that the glass sheet to which I glued most of the elements is *smaller* than the upper surface, hey, that's because I need some placeon each side to pour the elements!
Now you may ask why i didn't glued the elements to the upper glass sheet which will end up being the bottom of my mould? well, that's because I want the final water/resin to be easily unmouldable. This way, i will be able to grease efficiently all the surface.

September 07 2007 | What's below the waterline #3

Now you may notice some of the worse difficulty of the whole process: that everything joins the best I can manage from the upper to the lower parts, that's going to be tricky :(

September 08 2007 | Water lillies 1/5

Easy and good looking water lillies in 5 steps -it will certainly look better than any othe rmethods, believe me :)
First, take a flat surface and grease it (I have been using some table oil!)
Then make some small Green Stuff balls.

September 08 2007 | Water lillies 2/5

Then use the bottom of your X Acto knife and press your ball flat on the greased glass surface (you can also use a tile for instance) using some bit of greased transparent plastic to avoid direct contact between the metal and the green stuff -otherwise the green stuff will glue to the metal of course!

September 08 2007 | Water lillies 3/5

Then use a modelling knife and STILL THROUGH THE TRANSPARENT BIT OF PLASTIC, scribe some of the leaves "forms" (sorry, i can't find the right word, that's "nervures" in french).

September 08 2007 | Water lillies 4/5

Just let dry overnight and detach the stuff from the glass with a blade and that's it!
As the green stuff always stays kinda elastic, you won't break anything while cutting them out from the glass surface.
The water lillies produced this way are very thin and certainly better than you could find anywhere else -even if using some laser cut paper, and I don't even mention photoetch.

September 08 2007 | Water lillies 5/5

Okay here they are, soon I will show how to make the underwater part of the water lillies -don't forget to cut a V shaped form at the base of the leaf!

September 12 2007 | Hyacinths #1

The problem with reeds is that they don't cover the ground much and I have to think about something that would do this. On examination of marshes pictures, ther is some growth, always the same kind which are water hyacinths according to my books, so let's see how we can do this..

First coat a bit of paper with some superglue, for strength