[KwartzLab] Clay, wax, etc

[Michael Dunn]

   Thanks for the various replies! I'll have to head to KWS & Michael's.

   I've got various sealing wax colours on order - I'm interested to 
see how well those work.

   Doubt I'll carve any of my own intaglios, but I have a few pieces, 
in the mail too - some lapis stones with nice carvings, and a couple 
of cylinder seals.

   One of the cylinders is actually honest-to-goodness ancient - 
listed as 1500BCE! Maybe. The others look old, but probably no more 
than a couple hundred years. Or not.


md


    At 3:12 PM -0400 4/9/12, Agnes Niewiadomski wrote:
>If you're looking for the wax stuff to make the seals KW surplus 
>carries it in a few different colours found in the 
>craft/scrapbooking aisle. I was there last week and they had tons. 
>They look like mini hot glue sticks and are meant to be used with a 
>hot glue gun to melt the wax. They also sell some impression stamps 
>but they are kind of cheesy.
>
>My suggestion if you are carving it by hand as a subtractive 
>process, try linoluem (it used by printmakers for block printing and 
>can be found at Curry's Art Supply). They'll sell the carving tools 
>to go along with it.
>
>
>Agnes Niewiadomski
>
>
>
>On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jeff Schmidt 
><<mailto:digitalfalcon at rogers.com>digitalfalcon at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>You could try ShapeLock.  It is easy to mold and machine, though it 
>has a pretty low melting temperature (130F).
>
>- Jeff
>
>
>
>From: Michael Dunn <<mailto:md at cantares.on.ca>md at cantares.on.ca>
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>   I'm starting to mess around with intaglio seals & such, for 
>pressing into sealing wax for example.
>
>   Any other good materials you can think of? There's "Sculpey" 
>"clay", and maybe 1 or 2 clones of it (like Plasticine, but can be 
>baked to harden). There's that newish siliconey putty, whose name 
>escapes me (oobleck?)...
>
>
>md
>
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