Selected Case Study Details
Early Days
This "biography" is limited to my cast stone experience. My father was a very talented old school model maker and moldmaker, besides sculptor and painter in his own right. I don't know if he taught me everything he knew, but he spent a lifetime trying.
He worked in the architectural cast stone field all his life and was "famous" in the industry for modelling "in situ" directly on buildings. This shot at left was my first serious large scale collaboration with him. It was the Georgetown Park Fountain in Washington, DC. We made plaster models and molds and I remember it took two weeks to complete.
He worked in the architectural cast stone field all his life and was "famous" in the industry for modelling "in situ" directly on buildings. This shot at left was my first serious large scale collaboration with him. It was the Georgetown Park Fountain in Washington, DC. We made plaster models and molds and I remember it took two weeks to complete.
Mayflower Hotel
Single panel for the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. I modeled the face in clay and molded it separately from the rest of the panel. They were structurally joined later. There were about 200 such panels, about one in eight sporting the Muse face.
NIH Additions
Column capitals for a new annex to match the old. I made the model in wood, plaster, and clay (for more, see Case Studies)
Detail
Final products in imitation terra cotta.
Johns Hopkins University
The School of Nursing.
This is the finished model. I used HDO (High Density Overlay) as a base, then clay and plaster.
(There may be additional information available in Case Studies)
This is the finished model. I used HDO (High Density Overlay) as a base, then clay and plaster.
(There may be additional information available in Case Studies)
Final cast stone panel on The School of Nursing
The Award
For the School of Nursing Emblem: Building Congress and Exchange of Baltimore Craftsmanship Award "Mold Carving in Precast" 1997. Yeah, they had no idea what to call that category.
Maryland State Troopers Union
Bel Air, MD.
I carved each of the figures separately and affixed them to the base of my model before molding. Shown is the final cast stone piece.
I carved each of the figures separately and affixed them to the base of my model before molding. Shown is the final cast stone piece.
Washington Christian Academy
Olney, MD.
Finished plaster model. The sand was glued into the background in order to mold to a rough texture.
Finished plaster model. The sand was glued into the background in order to mold to a rough texture.
PDOT's Eagles
Four Eagle Precast Bridge Abutments seventeen feet high for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Case Studies will explain how I carved every bit of this from my favorite Lazy Boy chair while watching Netflix.
This was the original pen and ink drawing I submitted for approval. (Subsequently a change order required me to remove the chest feathers and on the wing crests.)
And the finished model. Case Studies explains how this 12" wide model was enlarged by a factor of 1728X.
