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| Page 2 The Plaster Casting |
| In this first picture, I've done the casting to the back of the head. It was quite an experience. I didn't get the plaster mixed correctly the first few times and ended up with a door stop in the bottom of my bucket. I also had quite a few air pockets to fill in. I used a syringe to do this. There were also problems with my retaining wall falling off the back of the sculpture. I had plaster everywhere. I really learned alot from just doing that back half! |
| Here you can see that the front half is now done. After using the knowledge from the back half, I only made small amounts of plaster and worked a bit faster. The base coat went on better and I also used burlap cut differently, (squares instead of strips) it worked alot better in covering the sculpture. |
| Here is an upright view of the casting. With all that clay and plaster it was quite heavy. You can see there is plaster on the armature, fortunetly it came right off. |
| This is after I pryed the two halves apart. The back half pretty much fell right off, The front half was a different story. I had to heat the whole thing in the oven ( with most of the armature sticking out and resting on the door) in order to get the front half pulled away and then I had to have help. Once it was finally moving, most of the clay came with it. I then had the task of cleaning all the clay out. |
| In this photo you can see most of the clay is gone. I still have a bit of detail cleaning to do. All of the facial features are now visible. Unfortunaltly I did find some areas that had been air pockets, so those will need to be repaired before I can cast my first mask. All I can say is I most definitely learned alot from this first mask, and will probably have much more to learn in the future. Page 3 shows the Latex Casting. |
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