We are waiting for snow!
Or so tells me Raymondo, who likes to follow satellite photos and predict the weather. Apparently it tends to only snow in Pietrasanta about once a year, usually in February or March. The temparature has certainly dropped again after a few balmy spring like days, and I’ve had to get my long johns out again!
I had a great morning ‘chasing’ again – i.e. working the bronze to get rid of the sprues etc. I finished the 4th figure, and have nearly finished the legs of the piece.
I learnt a clever trick on how to make the base flat: they have a flat slab of marble which they blacken with the flame of the oxyacetylene torch, then you can rub your piece on it to see which bits of the base are lowest and need grinding down.
My mother has just come in saying its definitely threatening to snow as she’s seen the odd snow flake. Typical – just when my husband and father are coming out for the weekend – although Raymondo also says that it should be sunny on saturday and sunday. I hope he’s also right on that.
Lunchtime, then back to the foundry for some more chasing – I should be working on the main bit of my piece. I then have life drawing tonight at Marcello’s and I need to talk to him about enlarging, maybe next week… I might ask him what he thinks of me going bigger than 3&1/2.
