Halloween

This year my brother wanted to go as a dead, cut up school boy, so that’s what I created 🙂

I placed a cut and bruising on his cheek, cuts on his arm and on his chest. He was happy with his look for the night 🙂

Sculpting

On my last post I showed you my final face cast frame ready to sculpt on.

The character I have gone for is a snowman, so my idea is to create a snowman nose and little round cheeks.

 

now I have my sculpture piece I can now make my prosthetic silicone piece. I do this by covering my sculpt with plaster and scrim, the same process as I made my face cast and frame.

 

 

when dried and set I then had to make sure all the sculpting clay was out of my cast so it was clean and ready to make my silicone prosthetic piece.

Yorkshire Scare Ground 2013

This years theme at the Halloween Yorkshire Scare Ground was Alien Invasion.

We had to create the actors into aliens. the head makeup artist had drawn out face charts so whichever character they were we could follow the face chart to the design. I enjoyed doing this as it was different to the rest of my work and will keep the skills I learnt and use them again in the future.

Frame for Facecast

Wooden board, smooth surface.

Place your face cast in the middle of the board.

Draw a 2/3inch circle around the cast

 

Place the face mask in a bowl of water to soak the edge of the face cast making it softer to insert into the plaster later.

Get a large block of clay and flatten it onto the wooden table, cut into strips to create the clay wall following the marked line. 3inch?

Pinch down the clay together to the wooden board, making sure there are no gaps. Place plaster bandage around the clay wall for extra support.

Mix plaster together, can make it thicker than the last, for the mask. Pour the plaster within the clay wall covering the bottom.

Insert 2 pieces of scrim in the plaster pushing it down and pouring more plaster ontop, filling it just under the top of the clay- don’t fill right up to the top.

Place face cast into the plaster set, make sure the face is straight facing and wait for it to dry.

 

Take clay and plaster bandage off from around the plaster cast, then wait for it to completely dry.

File around the edge so it is smooth, the sides, take the rough bits off. Shape the nose, chin, face, making it smoother and in shape.

Drill in 4 holes around the face, paint shellac onto the cast –few layers of paint until the cast shines.

 

Because we have painted shellac  on the cast the plasterline sticks on with no problem.

Do what mould you want to onto the cast, feather out at the bottom so when made it can apply onto the skin.

Can use textures on the mould.

Eg: press an orange skin against it,

Netting or any other materials with texture could be used.

FaceCasting (Part 2)

Block nose holes with clay, balance face cast so it doesn’t rock- make sure it’s sturdy

 

Mix plaster with 1 cup of water

Add plaster mixture until thicken.

Brush layers onto mask cast until all the green mould is covered.

Wait for  it to dry

Remix more plaster up.

Spray water onto mask, apply thin layer of plaster over mask.

Apply scrim (brown net) over the foreheard, chin and through the middle. Dab plaster onto it. This is extra support for the mask.

Make the plaster smooth and neat.

Let it dry properly, through out for about 30-45 minutes.

 

 

Face Casting

Face coat- mould life, life form – Part A – Light Green

Part B – Dark Green

 

Place the apron/plastic sheet around your model, Vaseline the eyebrows and lashes.

Draw a quick dotted line around the area of the face you want to cast.

Around the forehead, down the sides, under the chin.

Mix a large spoonful of A with the same amount of B. Mix together well.

Place onto the face quickly but safely, rolling on with the brush starting with the forehead. Making sure the nostril area is kept clear so your model can breathe with ease. Make sure that it is all covered with no gaps, wholes or spaces.

Once the face is covered place bandage over eyes and mouth.

Plaster bandage, fold in half, dip in water and place over the mouth, over the head, down each side of the face, down the nose. Covering the whole of the face and where the face mould is.

Fold length way and place it around the face as the frame of the head.

Leave to set for a few minutes.

Keep hands clean.

Sit the model up, tilting the models head forward.

Using the wooden tool, slowly peel the casting off. If the model moves their face and breathes out it will come loose and come off easier.