Kate Garrett
Make-up Exploration
Fibreglassing.
Sculpting.
After my last attempt at creating an old age sculpt I was proud of my work but I knew I needed to work really hard on created a realistic pore/wrinkled texture, so I have used this opportunity to expand and improve these skills.
I took alot more time over the intial placing of the clay and use refrence images to see where the heavier looking parts should be apose to where I thought they should be, this is something I learnt from the previous unit. Making the general shape look alot more realistic helped me decided how much texturising it needed. As you can see from the image above I have strong grooves in where the smile lines will form, all the images I looked at for refence these seemed to be deep showing the happiness of the person.
I am really pleased with how much I have improved on creating a realistic pore texture, I tried to push small rounded objects upwards into th eclay rather than straight on, creating a more tear drop shaped dent which mimicked a larger pore much better. I tried both the end of a tooth pick and a v pin grip. The grip gave a softer edged hole compared to the tooth pick which when pressed in went alot deeper even when on press lightly. This was used to create an all over base then brushed over with a nail brush to soften and irregualte the shape then I used the grip to ad more detailed pores over the top.
The grounding up around the nose was the hardest part for me of this piece as the such drastic changes in height made it very hard to get sharpe clean edges. I used la beau touche which as I have disscussed previously is my least prefered type of clay and I found the more I tired to smooth out and shape it became over sticky and pulling away from the core which I found made me very fustrated when grounding up. This is far from by neatest and cleanest grounding up, next time I need to focus more time and effort on this part of the process.
Fibreglassing.
The Process.
Following health and safety.
This photo demonstrates the protective measures I took to keep myself from injuring myself.
Baggy clothing - to stop any split material from touching my skin and possibly casuing burning.
Gloves (not latex) - to protect your hands when working with the chemicals.
Respirator - To aid breathing as the fumes can cause breathing difficulty.
Gel coat layer applied.
Fibre glass layering process finsihed & cured.
I felt really nervous when I first went into the room, I felt confident in what I needed to do and the process but the fact I was working with chemcials I am unfamilar with and didn't want to cause myself or anyone else harm. Once I started the nerves went and I actually found the chemicals really easy to measure and work with partly due to the wya the room is set out it makes it very easy to find everything you need and dispose of.
The actual process I found easy to pick up and do, it was just fustrating when knocking out the air bubbles you would do one area move round then when knocking those out others would appear on the other side again. The solution to this problem for me was to work from the very centre and outwards like a circle rather then doing it in strips.This also made my time for the process alot harder.
Demoulding & creating a silicone piece.
The Process.
Holes drilled through the fibreglass mould and the plastic core prior to demoulding.
After demoulding and cleaned out most of the clay.
Mould and core prepared, filled with silcione (pouring in method) and bolted together for pressure.
Inside the core, blots view.
Demoulded silcione prosthetic piece.
Close up of the texture of the piece.
This for my first fibre glass mould worked really well, I managed to create a successful silcione piece. The only down side to this method I found bolting the two halve stogether a very messy job, I also found you needed two people to get them all in before the silicone ran completely out the mould! There ia airbubble at the bottome of the cheek piece (pointed to above) but apart from this I am happy with the outcome.
Sculpting Analysis.
Fibre glass analysis.
Pouring in silicone technique analysis.
This piece when applied reavealed it faults, the silcione has invaded up the th eflashing meaning there was no bleeding edge alont the mouth section createing a harsh line which is only the star of this problem. I think this is due to the mould and core not being screwed tight enough initally. If you compare this to the piece made by injecting silicone the edges are much neater due to the correct pressure in the mould. Here I used grease paint to colour, which sat very heavily on the skin giving it a more theatrical look whcih is not appropriate for prosthetic pieces, there context is normally tv/film.
Injecting Silicone technique.
This is a new technique for me and to start with I found it very hard to do on my own as the silicone starter to come out the end of the seringe before getting it into the hole ready for inject. This was especailly hard when changing the seringes over as I didnt want to trap air into the mould. But overall I am happier with this outcome as you can see the edges have been alot more successful and no air bubble in the actual piece so overall mcuh cleaner pieces came out than the pouring technique.
I used an airbrush to colour this piece which has worked well in colour matchingher skintone but the piece has lost some of its pore detail which makes it look like a lump on solcione stuck onto the side of the face. Overall this piece needs work on th epaplication and I need to get the same thin edges surronding the whole prostehtic piece to avoid the bad edges aroun the nose/mouth area.
Silicone ran into the bleeding edge.
