July 30, 2004
Face Pictures
Here are some faces I've made learning this process. The first three are of Marla, off of an old mold. The first two of these are a polyurethane, which has a bit of a blue tint to it so I made them green. The third is silicon, where I learned how badly it flows during setting.
The last one is the recent face from Nik. You can see the flaws from the mold, and the tearing from the silicon not setting.
The tearing, combined with the green inner layers, creates quite the interesting effect. It might be worthwhile to learn two things for future faces: (1) how to make sure ALL the silicon sets, and (2) how to force sections to NOT set, to induce damage.
I am still just an egg... but hope to grok the fullness of silicon in time.
Posted by Edwin at July 30, 2004 09:20 AMEDWIN!!! I like the mistakes. Having something that is just off-center can be more frightening than the thing that jumps out or is gore-streaked. I wouldn't dismiss these as "mistakes" so quickly. Especially the second on (top right) and the last one.
Either would look fantastic as either a mask OR on a wall or other unexpected part of a display.
Posted by: roadkill at July 30, 2004 10:04 AMI would love to know how to do this.....do you have any instructions or references where I could go to learn about this technique?
Thanks~
Connie
Posted by: Connie at July 30, 2004 11:02 AMNot truly a comment on the faces as much as it is a joy to find someone else who uses Stranger in a Strange Land references both openly and flagrantly!
Preach on, Water Brother!
Oh... cool faces, too. The Evil Geniuses have not yet done life casting yet on any kind of major scale... Evil Genius John has done a couple of faces. We'll be looking in on more stuff!
Howard
Posted by: Syn at July 30, 2004 12:59 PMThanks for the nice comments, y'all.
Posted by: Edwin at August 1, 2004 11:56 AM