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  • Art’s Origins
    • The Origins of Artistic Expression – Part 1 ‘Things looking like other things’
    • The Origins of Artistic Expression – Part 2 ‘The making of marks’
  • Courses
    • Model-making Techniques Course
      • ‘reviews’
      • Special ‘consultation’ sessions
    • Mouldmaking and casting course summary
      • Special ‘consultation’ sessions
      • Full course description and daily schedule
      • ‘reviews’
    • Scale Model-making Course at CSM
    • Technical drawing for theatre, film or television designers
    • Mouldmaking and casting for model-makers
      • Introduction and provisional daily schedule
      • Working templates
      • Figure modelling reference images – caryatids, atlantes and ‘hemis’
      • Expressive modelling
      • Female figure resources
      • Male figure resources
    • Technical Drawing for theatre designers
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    • Inspirational websites
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  • Materials
    • casting
      • ‘quick view’ comparisons of casting materials
      • fillers for resin
        • Common fillers for resin casting
        • Using plaster as a filler in polyurethane resin
        • Filling polyurethane resin with used tea/coffee
      • polyester resin
      • polyurethane resin
      • epoxy resin
      • polymer-modified plaster
      • polyurethane foam
    • constructing
      • ‘Palight’ brand foamed Pvc
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
      • Working with stencil card
    • metalwork
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
    • mouldmaking
      • alginate
      • Casting polyurethane resin into alginate
      • meltable vinyl
      • plaster
      • silicone rubber
        • Recycling and filling/extending silicone
      • food-safe silicone rubber
      • ‘quick view’ comparisons of mould materials
    • shaping
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
      • List of sources for ready-made forms
    • modelling
      • Modelling wax
      • Super Sculpey
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
      • Milliput
      • Press-casting in Sculpey
    • surfacing
      • Creating surfaces with Kapa-line foamboard
      • Making relief patterning tools using Sculpey
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
      • Using standard black foamboard
    • painting
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
    • solvents and thinners
  • Methods
    • Making realistic models
      • Main construction
      • Fine construction
      • Modelling and shaping
      • Creating surfaces
      • Painting
    • Why make models?
    • Recommended tools for small-scale making
      • Introduction
      • Measuring and marking-out
    • Special surfacing methods
      • Printing patterns for scale wallpaper, curtains and carpets
      • Making relief patterning tools using Sculpey
      • Pressing decoration into foam, shaping and wire-brushing
    • Template drawings for furniture model-making
    • ‘White card models’ for film/tv work
    • common sizes of things
    • Making a wall
      • Part 1
      • Part 2
    • Modelling
      • Sculpting puppet hair
      • Modelling small-scale figures
        • Making the armature
    • brickwork patterns
    • Visual research
      • Recommended websites for visual research
      • Why not just Google?
      • Recommended books
    • Mouldmaking and casting
      • ‘Beginner’s Basics’ – mouldmaking and casting explained
      • Making a simple 2-piece silicone block mould for a puppet head
      • Making a small mould for a four-legged animal figure and casting in resin
      • Making a supported silicone mould for a life-size head and casting in fibreglass
      • Making hollow casts in open or ‘closed’ moulds
    • a quick guide to soldering
    • Working in scale
    • Visualization
      • Focusing the ‘mind’s eye’
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    • UK freelance model-makers
  • online course ‘reviews’
  • Suppliers
    • General list of suppliers
    • Updated sources/prices of specific materials
  • Technical Drawing
    • Some of the principles of technical drawing simply illustrated – Part 1
    • Some of the principles of technical drawing simply illustrated – Part 2
    • Lexicon of subjects and terms
  • Thames Foreshore
    • Advice for anyone interested in beachcombing or mudlarking the Thames Foreshore
    • ‘Thames Foreshore Collection’ project log
    • Deptford: Upper Watergate Stairs, St George’s Stairs
    • Greenwich: Wood Wharf
    • Surrey Docks: Trinity Wharf (Surrey Docks Farm), Horn Stairs, Pageant Stairs
    • Rotherhithe: Globe Stairs to Pageant Stairs
    • Enderby’s Wharf ( Greenwich Peninsula )
  • Shaping styrofoam
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  • Gallery
    • ‘Dreambags’ 2000
    • ‘Faim de siècle’ multiple series 1997-2003
    • ‘Fruitrack’ 1993
    • ‘Natural Selection’ 1995
    • ‘Sweetboxes’ 1994-2000
    • Interactive sculptures 1993-1995
    • ‘ex ovo’ drawings 1997
    • ‘grasslands’ 2020
    • ‘throw-sculpture’ 2020
    • Digital work 2017-18
      • Thames Foreshore 2017
        • Part Two
      • Respect for the pixel 2018
        • Part Two
      • Dancers 2017
      • ‘Pettiportrits’ 2017-18
      • Archetypes 2018
    • ‘landscapes’ 1998
    • ‘biomorph’ drawings 2012
    • notes 2021

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