Making my Moulds

This week I went down to Des and Pat in the technicians room and brought down a box of found objects and asked if i could cast them and what i could cast them in.
I brought down a box full of washed up crab parts and a dear skull.
I really liked these objects and wanted to keep them for the rest of the brief so i asked if i could make molds that wouldn't damage the pieces themselves.

I really liked these objects and wanted to keep them for the rest of the brief so i asked if i could make molds that wouldn't damage the pieces themselves. Pat showed me a material that they use on relics and he said it wouldn't damage the skull at all so i decided to get to work.

This is the skull in a plastic mold face down.

I then wanted to do this skull in wax but I couldn't pour the wax in because it would all fall out.

So i decided to let the wax on the cup get a little thick and then paint it on with a paintbrush, I had to do this really quickly as wax dries fast enough when its thick.

This was the end product.

I then had to get started on making my crab claw molds which were very hard to do.

First i had to get a slab of clay and press the crab part in about half way and then begin to build a wall of clay on the outside of the slab so that when i our the plaster in it wont leak out.

I did 1 of these at first and left it to dry for 12 hours and then i got this mold.

I really enjoyed the beginnings of this process as it was very exciting and it reminded me a lot of what Racheal Whiteread was doing with random objects from a house.

 As seen below