LAUAN 503 Character and Narrative - Casting Workshop Four

In our final session of casting, we began by demolding our silicon two park mold from last session. This worked very well. There were no bubbles in the silion, the textures and shapes had been molded perfectly, there was some flashing as to be expected but cleaning up the cast was an easy task. Next, we painted the first layer of silicon onto each side of our molds. This was to accurately capture all the textures and shape in the mold as today's thicker sillion mix wouldn't do so itself. We then made a wire armature to run the inside of our mold and after mixing the thicker silicon, we then poured and pressed armature in and taped the mold together.

Demolding:
Demolding the silion was a success. Due to the shape of the mold and its extremely thin tips, the wire has moved slightly out of place and through the shape of the mold, which with practice would not happen again. However once more, the silicon was well mixed, there were no bubbles and after cutting down the flashing the cast was a success.

Summary :
I really enjoyed the casting work shops, the skills and mediums we have learned and experimented with are so translatable. I will almost definitely be returning to practice and utilise the facilities and skills we've been taught. Overall the casts and molds I have made have worked well, demonstrating that I understand and learned the processes.