I was quite looking forward to taking moulds from my silicone, not only because it meant that I was finally getting somewhere with this project but because the silicone is square so it would be nice and easy to cottle up (small victories).
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| Pay no attention to the leak in the bottom-left corner.. |
Dental plaster would have definitely been the way forward but didn't have any so I improvised (can I really call it that?) with regular plaster. The improvisation being that I didn't use flint so it wouldn't be as thick and lumpy and I could get cleaner details, and I poured it whilst it was still super watery to encourage it to get into all the little gaps. Andrea Walsh (one of our artists in residence) suggested pouring a really thin layer first and blowing it into them with the outer tube of a Biro pen- a top tip she learned during a residency at Wedgwood.
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| A surprising level of detail! |
They actually ended up turning out okay; there's quite a lot of bubbles and some of the details did keep getting pulled off when I was removing the silicone.
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| A few plaster causalities- oops! |
Whilst I am actually pretty happy with how the plaster has been turning out they do need a bit of work done on them to get them all nice for casting from.
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