Caged Rabbit Productions

Art by Murray Gudesblat

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Cheshire Cat Custom Trikky

Trikky by @kidrobot Paints by @cagedrabbitproductions

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Implement. Charcoal, Chalk, Titanium Oxide Pigment, Alcohol. 36" x 96". Experiment. Charcoal, Chalk, Titanium Oxide Pigment, Alcohol. 36" x 96". Implement/Experiment installed on The Beast: Safety Regulations.

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Corpus #2. Polyurethane Foam. 36" x 24" x 48". 2014.

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The Beast: Safety Regulations (interior) Wood, Fabric, Security Film. 8' x 8' x 10' (interior dimensions). Featuring Cronus (Wax, Fiberglass, LED. 108" x 40" x 40". 2014.) and Kolpos (Wax, Fiberglass, LED. 74" x 40" x 40". 2014.)

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"Fields" 30"x22" Charcoal, Chalk, Paper

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Cheshire Cat (Not including whiskers) 9"x7.5" Foam latex, latex acrylic paint, faux hair.

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Untitled (for now). Metal, chains, plaster, epoxy.

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Finished stencil silk screen 11"x15", acrylic ink, paper

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Some autonomous drawings in charcoal.

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Work in progress. A collaboration with terrialuise. Clay. 1:1.5 scale figure. More photos to come.

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I recommend watching in HD otherwise it doesnt show right. sorry. This is a mucked up mask I am using, not the final. i just wanted to see how well it would glue on, and how well it would move.

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Entropy

Life size arm.

Paraffin Wax. Brown and Paraffin wax colored with Cadmium Red Pigment.

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Image 1. So this was the first mask I had processed, which had a lot of steam bubbles. In an attempt to patch them, I decided to try to mix a small batch of foam and brush it into those spots, and force the mask into the mold and bake it anew that way. It didn’t work out too well. Which honestly is roughly what I expected. Was worth a shot I suppose. The new foam delaminated too easily, except for some places where I think i used way more citric acid than I initially intended. So that is of note. There was far more white foam (the white foam is new, yellow is old) but i kind of peeled it all off. The eye that has the white foam on it is the one where it stuck and bonded well.

Image 2. I tried a new method of making the mask. I poured an initial very thin layer of latex and did essentially a flash coat. then i proceeded to make foam and pour and cure as usual. Only things of note are that 1. I used monster maker’s Super Cell foaming agent a long with their standard foaming agent and 2. that there were definitely less steam bubbles, but still not without error. I made a very small batch of a foam with only super cell and very little gelling agent and used that to fill the holes. worked out okay, but still not satisfied with the fact that it was such a slow patching process.

Made another mask, and am currently patching it with a mix of the above 2 processes. We’ll see. Things of note, Super Cell makes the mask waaaay softer than the first run, and it is quite nice. I also have gelling agent proportions down so that I have enough time with the foam that I can finally get a really nice even and very thin edge because the two sides of the mold finally close all the way.

Update: Above combination did not work. Will have to buy fumigated silica and attempt patching that way. Will attempt another mask with even thinner coat of rubber and a better foam mix. Hopefully this’ll be the final mask, bc my mold is starting to fall apart. Poor guy.

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Intro

So it seems I have some followers! So for those of you who don’t know me, my name is Murray and I am a fourth year sculpture major at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. I am making this blog to show people what I do and what I am working on! I’be gotten very into mask making and hope to get really good at it, possibly good enough to start doing it for work, which’d be a lot of fun. As I go along in my projects I plan to do in progress shots and if anyone cares for it, how to’s. Well, that’s it for today. I may post some photos of my green arrow costume that I’m sewing later on. Thanks for reading!

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FOAM LATEX!!

Image 1. After roughly 5 previous attempts at casting in Foam Latex, I finally got a decent an outcome. There was a steam pocket on the left side of the mask, so I will have to recast, but for all the effort I am happy that I finally have the process down.

Image 2. Me trying on the mask to see how well it moves. I felt like Mike Myers. Can’t wait to get a final cast done, so I can finally continue with paint and fur!

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Final Sculpt and Casting!!

In order of appearance.

1-3 Added Clay Rails and Keys 4-7 Final Photos before it goes under plaster! 8 Flash Coat!

Not shown: Second flash coat. Thick Coat. Burlap layer. Removal of clay rails. creating the second half of the mold by adding plaster and rails to the original head cast. and of course, de-molding.

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In order of Appearance.

1.Initial Sketch 2. Full Head Cast 3-4. Initial Sculpt 5-6. Details!