Sunday, October 12, 2014

I Decided to mold and cast my sculpture. I was a bit nervous because it was my first time making a mold and since this piece has big undercuts, I was worried that I will screw up my hard work. I did some research and went with silicone mold, and rebound 25 seemed to be a good all around silicone mold material, and I was happy with the results. I bought the starter kit at Blicks but I found out that during the process of my mold making that just one kit wasn't enough for my 12 inch sculpture, I needed 2 kits and I should have probably bought another 2 lbs of the silicone mold. So I ended up using 4 lbs of silicone, but I should have probably used 6lbs. Even though I felt like I should have used more product, I'm happy with the end result. I plan to do another cast to try and see if i can fix any imperfections I felt i got with the first cast, but that was mostly my fault with my slush technique and demolding.

Monday, July 07, 2014

Making a bust of one of my sketches, here's some progress and evolution of the piece. Now starting the small skin details and refining, it's all a learning process.