seen from United States
seen from Belgium
seen from India
seen from Russia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Maldives
seen from Canada
seen from Canada
Today was spent making plaster moulds for my final piece. It’s quite a time consuming process but I think it will be worth it because it means I can make multiple vessels using these moulds. I intend to use paper pulp and air dry clay to make bottles of different heights. The video lags in the middle not sure what that is..technical glitch :/
Today I started making the mould for my puppet head. I set it in clay and smoothed it evenly around the join. I added keys and then mixed up plaster and scooped it onto the sculpt to form the first half of the 2 peice mould. I will make the scond half of the mould on monday!
Today we learnt how to make studio plaster moulds of our head casts. I started by using water based clay to prop up the head face up to section it off as the first section of this 3 part mould, i pressed the end of a tool into the clay to make keys, to ensure the mould would fit together securely when casting.
I then mixed up some casting plaster, waited for it to start to turn enough for me to scoop it onto the face. Plaster is A thixotropic fluid so is thick when still but becomes runny when agitated. So to capture the fine detail the first handful placed on is shaken a little to let it become liquid and flood into all the fine detail. The rest of the plaster is put on in handfuls and smoothed over, I agitated it at the end to create a flat plane to rest the mould on later.
Once it was cured I turned it over and removed the clay. I then used the clay to build a wall to separate the head in half, I used paint to mark the edge of the first piece of the mould and painted slip on the exposed plaster to act as a release agent. I then repeated the plaster process to complete the second part of the mould.
To finish the mould I simply repeated the process for the final section to be opened tomorrow.
Another clay Sundial face popped out of the plaster mould. #davidfieldsculpture #clay #sundial #ceramic #plastermould #sculptor #sculpture
