Pug Jr.

Today I started working on a little brother that will be more shipping friendly. Clearly, he’s in the early stages of roughing out his proportions and there’s a ways to go.

The Statue of the Sitting Pug Progresses

After layering on the liquid latex morning and night, it was time to get the show on the road and cast the plaster cradle that holds the mold in place when filling it with cement. Here’s the process. The blue tape is so the plaster can be removed in sections and then later placed around the rubber mold when casting cement.

Biscuit Nose Rainbow

I never realized there was so much one could do to color cement. My latest is to use a concrete sealer to bring out the colors.

Finally, The Right Shade of Chocolate

Through a combination of brown powder color added to the cement mix and a brown acid stain, and then a concrete sealer, I finally got that right chocolate color on my cement Labrador.