Sherry Wacker: Recent Comments

Comment on Airbrushing Techniques, Cars and Motorcycles

2010-01-11T16:42:21Z

The shop that clear coats my work uses old time technology. They bake the finish coat, sand it and apply another finish. This makes the underpainting protected by a very hard coating. My responsibility ends with the finish and colors holding up. I do not deal in auto insurance and I have no idea what my customers do to insure their cars once my work is done.

Comment on Airbrushing Techniques, Cars and Motorcycles

2010-01-09T10:33:30Z

Doing the maintenance and upkeep for an art piece like the Jerry Garcia must be a bit of a challenge, though. Do your customers get car insurance quotes with special riders to cover the costs of getting art work like this repaired in the event of an accident?

Comment on How do you do that? Outdoor Cement Sculpture and Pool

2009-12-28T21:35:57Z

I did custom cement work locally for $65 an hour. The contractor paid for the cement delivery and helpers to haul the cement to where I was working on it. Most of the work I did on the project was sculptural.

Comment on How do you do that? Outdoor Cement Sculpture and Pool

2009-12-24T02:59:07Z

Nice work done by you..can you tell me how much cost comes of your this work...?

Comment on How do you do that? Outdoor Cement Sculpture and Pool

2009-12-16T12:23:14Z

I love to combine art with function and it sounds like you have the perfect use for cement sculpture. If you build a waterfall into your project you will never regret it. Good luck,

Comment on Airbrush Techniques, Stenciling methods

2009-12-02T07:09:21Z

This technique is quite attractive and it looks very simple the technique used to take the image is good.

Comment on How do you do that? Outdoor Cement Sculpture and Pool

2009-12-01T17:30:17Z

You can use acrylic paint. Because it is water based it sinks into the cement like a stain if watered down. Some artists add acrylic paint directly to the wet cement mix. This practice also strengthens the cement and helps it to be more waterproof in addition to adding color.

If you want to totally cover the cement with a coating or make it look like metal you can use outdoor enamel paints and make a patina finish. You do this by using a metallic paint like copper or brass. Then when it is dry you cover it with a thinned down paint over the cement. You would use black, brown or the green of weathered copper depending on what metal you are trying to simulate. You rub this paint off and in the process, it stays in the cracks. It will give the sculpture a patina finish. Do not paint the cement until it has cured for over a month. The cement casts off lime deposits and it also will still be contracting and hardening over that time. Most thickly painted cement objects will eventually peal if they are outdoors.

Comment on How do you do that? Outdoor Cement Sculpture and Pool

2009-12-01T07:25:02Z

What type of paint should be used on outdoor cement objects?

Comment on Airbrush Techniques, Stenciling methods

2009-11-28T06:17:06Z

The technique allows for the blending of two or more colors in a seamless way, with one color slowly becoming another color.Freehand airbrushed images, without the aid of stencils or friskets, have a floating quality, with softly defined edges between colors, and between foreground and background colors.

Comment on How do you do that? Outdoor cement sculpture, lesson 1

2009-11-27T13:02:06Z

Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is.