Friday, 10 June 2016

Experimenting with materials...


Making a mould! - Learning how to use alginate, make a plaster cast and then a rubber mould. Fill that mould with plaster to get a cast, and smoothing out the air bubble from the mould. Then...


Made a soft latex mould from the plaster cast to make skewed faces. I experimented with inks of both, and scraping into the plaster on the green one. I thought that this could work well for something, but wasn't what I wanted to focus on, so instead I tried...


Wax faces! I did like these a lot, but one i'd made a few and tried adding colour, I wasn't too sure where to go, and whether I felt like these really fitted with what I wanted to get across. I am happy with them, but didn't want this to be my final piece for this project. So instead I went for...

A wire sculpture with a latex 'skin' sewn on, of texture made mostly from wax, but the final face was from clay pressed into a plaster cast of the wax texture.
It still isn't... quite? what I can picture, and what I want to get a across, but t's the closest I can get at the moment and I am very happy with it. 

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