I would love to make more casts of arms and legs but cannot afford to spend money on alginate – I looked for cheap and easy ways to take casts and saw a u tube of creating form using cling film and sellotape to wrap around limbs – made quite a few but not […]
Experimenting with wax, pigment and layers – inserting hair into wax as it sets, sewing into using heated needles. Carving and using inks looks messy but can adjust afterwards, tried acrylic but it looks too contrived and not part of the wax. The sewing with the heated needle only really works to attach or hang […]
Casting Finally managed to cast in wax today using alginite – I decided to use wax rather than plaster as I think it will work better with the hair and the properties feel more realistic and less lardy/clinical. I practiced sewing into the wax but wanted a surface mark to show under the skin too […]