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| Sculpture is cut apart in many pieces. I like that I can work on the area under the skirt. |
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| clay is used as a pour cup on the arm. |
1. Cutting up- This was already mentioned in an earlier post
2. Claying up- In this part of the process the mold is divided into two halves with clay seams. Pour cups are also added to the mold- This offers a place for the foundry to pour the wax.
3. Painting Rubber- Once the pieces are cut, cleaned and clayed up the rubber is painted on both halves of the sculpture. Four plus coats are used on each piece. It takes about an hour for the rubber to dry in between coats.
4. Mother mold- the mother mold is called that because it is placed on top of the rubber mold and holds the rubber in place. Without it, when someone tried to pour wax into the mold the mold would be miss shapen. Creating the mother mold is hard work. A very stiff plaster/cement is mixed for each half. I mix my plaster by hand. It takes about 40 minutes for each half of the mother mold. Everyone of the molds that I made had at least 2 mother molds- front and back. The chest had three because it was so large.
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| The legs and two parts of the skirt sit drying after the many coats of rubber. |
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| After the rubber is dry, Evelyn's head must have a mother mold of plaster a This is a two part process and very, ver messy. Good weather means I can make the mess outside. |
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| Once the mold is complete the clay is taken out of the rubber and the mold is cleaned. |
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| The other mold and clay mold of the arm cleaned and ready to be sent to the foundry . |
