I made little cylinders out of aluminum foil to create my Ben-Day dots and use them as the environment for my project. I followed instructions found online that all pointed me towards a similar direction in creating this sugar sculpture. I boiled water and sugar, scummed off any excess residue, added glucose (which I substituted light corn syrup for) and food dye. In the end, it did not really work out how I wanted it to and the syrup did not set as I hoped it would. I think possible errors that could have occurred might have been from substituting the glucose. I don't think that I want to spend more time on this and have it happen again, but I will try a few more times before Thursday. I think that if I end up not getting the right consistencies and ideal solids that I want, I'll probably switch to a different type of material - ice.
I think that I can use ice with most of the materials I bought and I've been researching methods of how to preserve ice longer and keep it from melting after having been sculpted. I also got friendly advice from Macee and could use dry ice from the Berkey Creamery as a foundation for my piece (it would look nice because it's in blocks which would give the project more depth and keep the cool temperature regulated.
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Although the sugar idea didn't work out as I planned, I'm thinking of really cool ideas I could be doing with ice and dentistry.
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A lot of problems happened, like the heat kept switching on
and off no matter what I did (switching outlets, switching burners)
and this led to non-consistent temperatures.
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