This is what i did last weekend

[t_isfor_]

Check out the sculpture revolution at:

http://photobucket.com/albums/y36/massedit/

Comments

[behnnie]

i can't even remember back as far as last weekend. you totally win. those images are incredible.

{sheepish grin of victory}

[whyte_rabbit]

so, I finally remembered my livejournal username and password. It's kinda lame but sometimes so am I.

[cruiserlyn]

[whyte_rabbit]

I use a paraffin/gasoline mixture. They only actually burn for five to ten minutes at a time. The larger ones were self-consuming but the last few can be, and have been, relit as often as possible.

[cruiserlyn]

[whyte_rabbit]

Yeah, paraffin is actually just that, candle wax. I got the idea while talking to my dad about my sculptures. Initially I was using newspaper, a lot of newspaper, wired or stapled onto a wood frame, but that took days to prepare for about a half hour burn. So I was looking everywhere for a more time efficient way to sculpt with fire. I tried a whole bunch of really hokey stuff but eventually my dad mentioned that he thought wax might dissolve in gasoline, which it does, over the course of about a month. So, I fiddled around with different ways to mix the two, and now I can get a mix with kind of a peanut butter consistency in about four hours. Essentially it works the same as a candle except a whole lot faster; the wax sticks to most things and slows down the fuel burn.