Sculpt Again and dropping my cast! oh no!!!!

Hello Again,

In my last entry, we talked about how you sculpt, in this entry I am going to show/talk about all the things I did wrong and how to rectify this. 

I will also talk about dropping my cast!!!!!! That there was a bad day!!!!!!

Ok so, before we moved on to mould making I took my cast in to class it looked like this:

So the reason that is not particularly good for moulding is that the edge of the sculpt is uneven, this would make it hard to create 'flashing'

Ok so now you want to know what flashing is, flashing is a clay line around your sculpt and in any white areas, you leave around a half a finger tip gap between the sculpt and the flashing. 

you need to spray a non stick agent on your sculpt and the flashing, then on all the areas that the plaster of paris is showing you must apply petroleum jelly, this prevents the cast sticking to the plaster, if that happened you would lose your work and inevitable have to start over!

So back to the day I took my cast in to class and discovered that I needed to remove the detail, this means smoothing down with a wire brush, I used a suede brush, you do not use hard or heavy movements, ensure they are light you only want to smooth but at the same time textured, this gives your prosthetic a more realistic finish.

After this, use a cheap powder brush and talcum powder, to finish off nicely, it is now ready for having detail applied! 

Here you can see that I am using the suede brush, in very light circular movements, I am being very light as I dont to scratch to the plaster. 

Talc action across the nose! 

sprinkling more talc this is to smooth. 

All talc-ed up and ready for detail

Detail

                                                                 
                                                                         To make the nose slits I used a sharp sculpt tool
I used shells to get  this detail

you can see here gill like marks they are made from the same instrument. 

Here you can see clearly shell marks the  shell that created that marking is the the one is the picture. 

All finished 

After doing this I had borred a hat box to carry it in, on the way the following to the train station, the hat box flipped open, the cast flew out of the box and smacked the pavement, For a second I couldn't look, then I plucked up my courage, looked down and her chin had a big wedge missing from it, thankfully it was ok else where. 

In the next entry I will talk about how I got around this, what the repercussion's and what the next step is!

This is going up soon so keep a look out! 

Amanda