Wax Realisations

 When looking at my wax and my reference I came to some realisations that influenced my work. 

For the petals, I needed to have more than just a single layer of petals as sunflowers have lots of petals closely packed. The petals on a sunflower also don't appear to be attached to the center when viewed from the front so when I attached the petals I did it from the back. The blue wax was quite stringy so I will need to clean up the back once it is cast. 

The center needed to be hollowed out to reduce weight for casting. I am unsure about the stipple texture that I might add more dots or add a texture over the stippling as there is so much space between the dots but I want to see how it will look in metal before deciding.

Bowes, K.,(2021). Incomplete wax flower.

Bowes, K.,(2021). Back of flower.