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   The studio walls are covered with Styrofoam that has been hand carved, painted a sand stone color and weathered with black paint. The reliefs were crafted with a Dremel drill fitted with a circular wire brush attachment. Each of the hieroglyphs were first sketched out on the foam and then carved with a basic soldering iron.
     
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All of the walls are covered with Styrofoam that was hand carved to look like stone
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To achieve a weathered stone look, the Styrofoam is painted a sandstone color and then sponged down with black paint
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The mural on the closet blind was drawn by tracing an image that was projected by an overhead projector.
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Each point of light is a group of fiber optic strands. The galaxies were painted with UV paint that only appear with black lights.
  - Notice the glowing eyes in the relief characters. More UV paint.
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This was hand carved using a Dremel drill with a wire brush attachment
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  How it was made...  
 
 
 

Start off with a piece of Styrofoam and use a vibrator sander and sand the sheet smooth

Paint the sheet with sandstone colored paint

Final Product
Mark out the bricks and hieroglyphics and carve them with a soldering iron. Apply black paint to the mortar area between the bricks with a paint brush  

 

Using a wet sponge smear the black paint to achieve the weathered look

  
 
 
 
 
Prototype of a column