Journal Update!

I've been making a wire figure with a latex 'skin' sewn on and I'm hoping it will work out. I really do wish I'd started it sooner as it really is what I'd wanted to do since I worked out I could sew the latex. I don't why I didn't.
I am glad I got the chance to learn about mould making of faces, using alginate and rubber but I could have spent more time on getting the sculpture I'm doing now to have more... focus, I think.

I've veered away from trying to focus more on expressing a distinct feeling, as I was finding it hard to communicate effectively, both at first in drawings and then from drawings to wire, but hopefully the shape of the figure links back to other things I've done and looked at. It definitely follows on from all my latex experiment, my wire face in the previous project, and possibly the work of LucyandBart

David Oliveira - wire sculptures!!!

I feel like I  will be pleased with the outcome, and I'm really enjoying the process. It isn't quite what I was aiming for, but I can keep making things after this course, maybe I might get across what I want at some point.

Making sense

Panoramafails / FKA Twigs

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Journal update!

Ok so here's where I'm at right now – I've got a backup plan that'll take a short amount of time to complete, and a 7 days to try and make something else...

The wax heads:

I aimed towards making these for my final piece, so the past couple of weeks were spent experimenting with plaster moulds and seeing what would work to make a wax cast from. Rubber moulds seems to be the best to pour molten wax into and get the solid cast out of at the end.

The method of pouring the hot wax onto the forehead of the wax face, then pouring more as the face is put in a tall bucket of water to make the shape attached does work as I’d hoped, and looks better when all white as getting the colour mixed nicely into the wax is very difficult to get right, and if the shape coming out the front goes wrong I can't easily snap it off and melt it back down.

I felt like I learnt a lot of new techniques and how to use things like alginate and rubber to make moulds, and while I'd be happy with having the white wax faces as my final piece I just don’t feel like it's what I was aiming towards, from looking at my artist inspiration.

I feel a bit like anyone could have made it, and I know I was told 'but they didn’t and you did' that wasn’t so much what I meant. If it's my last project on this course I want to make something that has more of personality or style or 'whatever' in, not something that... doesn't?

On the other hand I’ve not got much time!!!!!!

so that's why I’ve been feeling a bit weird over this whole thing and unsure of what to do.

But I think I’m just going to go for it and hope for the best because worst case scenario is, I make something ok that I'm not too happy with ?