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 ?
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