Carving

For this carving project I wanted to do something that would go with a painting I did in a previous class and have hanging on a wall in my house.  I had a slab of wax laying around from when I use to make candles so I decided to use that since it would be cheep and easy to carve.  I lined a glass bowl with aluminum foil, placed the wick and poured the melted wax in.  After it dried I had to pry it out a little from the bowl but it eventually popped out.  After I pealed the aluminum foil off it gave an interesting texture so I decided to play off of that a little.  I flipped the whole thing over so the flat part would be the base and just started carving.  Since the painting had mountains in it I began to carve a couple mountings but decided the shape of the wax may not allow for two complete mountains so I decided to make a single peek.  After finishing the carving I decided that it would need some color so I experimented with melting some crayons onto the surface but it was not giving the desired effect so tried to used my acrylic paints and it worked great.  The color showed off the texture on the rocks nicely.