Froggy

Over the weekend I took a styrofoam/concrete class. We were all given a block of styrofoam, had to grid the block and looking at a frog form draw the front, side and top of the frog on the block. They had a hot wire set up to cut the styrofoam. Cutting with a hot wire is very slick.

The pictures loaded backwards so if you go to the bottom up you will see the process.


The frog was left over night and the next day we made more of the concrete mixture and formed the hands, lips and rounded it by adding the mixture to the front and sides. He is home now and I have to spray him with water every day for the curing process. In a month I can mosaic him!!

Over the mesh went a slurry of watered down cement and then a mixture of cement, sand and admix. It was pushed into the mesh and smoothed with our hands and the slurry paint brush.

It was then wrapped with sticky mesh. Where the mesh wouldn't stick we pushed in roofing nails.

Form cut out of the styrofoam with the hot wire. From here it was shaped with hand held hot wire tools and rasps.