How Do You Make A Life Cast Sculpture?
Making sculpture from life has as many variations as there are body parts (this article uses the hand as an example). Variations will be driven by container size and will effect material measurements. There are many materials you can use to pour your final sculpture. Gardencast is used here. • Think about what you want to express and decide which hand shape will express that for you. • Make a container the size of your hand out of cardboard or foam core. • Mix dermagel mold material to pour into your mold. • Measure 3 cups dermagel into a ziploc bag. • Measure 4 1/2 cups water in a bowl. • Pour water into the ziploc bag with the dermagel. Mix until smooth — work quickly, it gets firm in 4 minutes or so. • Pour dermagel into your container 1/2 inch from the surface. • Put your hand in the mold, and keep it as still as possible. After about 5 minutes (when dermagel is firm), release hand sowly by wiggling your fingers and separating the mold edge from your hand. • Cut off any unnecessar
