On the Workbench

Our computer has completely died, forcing me to step away from the photo editing. Having a little free time this weekend, I started work on another little design to add to my Rain or Shine collection. I really enjoy wax carving and I’ve not done any for a while, so I settled on making some little raindrops.

I would normally work out an exact design by hand, upload it onto the computer to perfect, before printing out and transferring to the wax, but due to aforementioned computer death, I just drew the raindrops freehand onto the wax, then cut out the shape with little sawblades.

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Shaping the edges:

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And the finished waxes for casting:

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