[TAGS] My new 3D tactile painting

[Noel Runyan]

Aishwarya,
Many folks do not realize that rain drops are not tapered tear drop 
shaped, instead, they are slightly squashed spheroidal blobs.
When drops form as drips from a nozzle or eye dropper, they take on the 
shape of a tapered tear drop before they break off and turn into a 
falling spheroidal blob.
However, in the case of artworks, it may be desirable to use tapered 
tear drops, instead of more realistic spheroid drops.
I've formed very small tapered tear drops with hot melt plastics that 
were form at the outlet of a glass eye dropper or other nozzle.  After 
the tear drop forms, and is still hanging on the end of the eye dropper, 
you can lower it and the end of eye (dropper) into a container of water, 
till it cools enough to keep its solid shape, then it can be cut off 
from the eye dropper.
There are many choices for the hot melt plastic.
PCL (Polycaprolactone) Thermo Plastic is a nice hot melt plastic that is 
soft at very low temperatures (60 °C (140 °F)), and it solidifies hard 
and tough, like Nylon.
Because of its low temperature, you can get away with touching it 
carefully, as it cools, to shape it some. For example, you might want to 
flatten a side, to make it easier to glue to your canvass.
PCL thermo plastic is now readily available for artists and is nice to 
mold into all sorts of 3D tactile shapes.
Cordially,
Noel
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Noel H. Runyan
Email: Noel at PersonalDataSystems.com
Phone: 1-408-866-7564


The hot melt plastic