tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7169394707427276082024-03-05T09:53:18.307+00:00The Unattended Lessons (working title)production diary of a short stop-motion filmJoseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-12323802972549289172017-05-14T15:57:00.001+01:002017-05-14T15:57:41.575+01:0049th Entry - Becoming<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background: #fff; border-radius: 3px; border: 0; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.5) , 0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: 99.375%;">
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<script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script>Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-14061741470927974592017-01-08T15:04:00.000+00:002017-01-08T15:04:22.476+00:0048th Entry - A ComparisonTwelve Years between Rilke of Solo Duets, and Rousseau of The Unattended Lessons.<br />
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Rilke's underpainted latex skin is now so yellowed and brittle that it risks cracking into pieces. His eyes will no longer move, as if encrusted with 12 years of sleep.</div>
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Rousseau's fresh, unpainted silicone skin is pale and lacking in definition. But it is interesting to see the comparison, even if unfair to both figures.</div>
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<script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script>Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-18125664473643392592017-01-08T14:52:00.000+00:002017-01-08T14:52:21.005+00:0047th Entry -Three figuresCostume mannequins, unpainted, without hair, and with first prototype eyes from the London period.<div>
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<script async="" defer="" src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script>Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-48532959726828336782016-07-29T12:08:00.002+01:002016-08-02T19:59:52.175+01:0045th Entry - A Costume MannequinWith the completion of each new mould, a costume mannequin is produced. This is the first posable version of Rousseau, and though it is unpainted and hairless, and with blank beads for eyes, it is a step closer towards life.<br />
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These were removed gently, and replaced with white plastic threaded balls. <br />
The eyelids had no bleed over the ball - a perfect cast.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Costume Mannequin. Wire armature with makeshift ball joints<br />
in shoulders. Urethane legs with removable feet. Tinted PlatSil Gel 25 skin</td></tr>
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Mould shell: urethane. Mould matrix: platinum silicone.</td></tr>
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<br />Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-52093044750369024852016-05-05T08:26:00.001+01:002016-05-05T08:54:20.180+01:0044th Entry - Two out of Four<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-41928687475162945112016-02-22T19:14:00.000+00:002016-02-22T19:14:08.204+00:0043rd Entry - Final Mould Test<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After avoiding the idea of casting silicone from a silicone mould for so many months, all evidence pointed back towards it as the final solution. In the end it came down to comfort, partly. I feel relatively comfortable working with silicone, in the comfort of my studio, instead of the highly toxic and extremely fast setting (low work time) urethane, for which the cold darkroom was reconverted as a mould-making workshop. Silicone makes me happier, and it makes my cat happier, who sleeps in the main part of the room where I would be forced to work the fuming urethane.<div>
The outer rigid part of the mould remains urethane, but the silicone allows for a slow, warm, non-toxic pour. And the newly discovered Platsil Gel 25 offers the options of slowing down work time, and hardening the cured rubber up to shore A 40, which is excellent. Furthermore, it is much lower in viscosity.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A partial sculpture created for this mould test</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sculpture was held together merely with a soft sticky wax. When the mould was opened the head stayed with the eye pins, and the body chose the back part of the mould. Both parts were removed and the clay was cleaned out, meaning that the figure changed position slightly for the next stage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shellac was only used in the third part after frustration with the acrylic spray which seemed to never dry. Everything seemed to take longer to dry than the clay itself.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joseph Feltus' eye mechanism.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plastic Gel 25 with 50% deadener cast over wire and supersculpey armature. No overflow, nearly invisible seams on the head, where the mould was most carefully worked for this test.</td></tr>
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The things you strive to do well, you do not do enough.<br />
Moulds are no exception. Each time you approach this task, you believe to be generous with the time you give yourself, and confident of a greater knowledge than you had previously. Or rather, you seem to expect to have some sort of second nature for such things. <br />
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What did not help with the time was that you were able to brake one of the most precious things of these years of work, and the precise thing this new mould was required for, in preparation for beginning.<br />
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What did not help with time is that you forgot many things you had learned, because you expect the many weeks between the activity of mould making not to allow for forgetfulness.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pushing ahead, the same white modelling wax used for the original sculptures<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These things don't get any easier.<br />
Hopefully, however, they do get a little better</td></tr>
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poured from high up to try and minimise air bubbles. <br />
250g used for this side. 24 hour curing time for each side of the mould.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The delicate eyelids did not survive the moulding.<br />Isolde's face oddly detached from her head<br />in the place where it had been cast separately<br />for easier access to the back of the eyes when,<br />the plaster piece was carved for empty sockets.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The case line of this mould was designed to leave the ears on the back side.<br />This allows for better access to the eyes, from the back, when<br />brushing casting material into the small valleys of the eyelids,<br />and allows for gravity to assist in filling the ears with casting material.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unscrewing the steel ball from the back of the face before removing<br />clay casts from the mould proved to be very difficult with normal tweezers.<br />They would not grip properly to the ball, so a pair of philatelic tweezers were<br />modified with polymorph and tape.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Many attempts for a successful cast were made, but<br />in twisting the steel ball off its threaded pin,<br />the detail that was trying to be saved was altered.<br />The solution was to cut into the back of the mould to allow<br />for access to the pins from the other side, leaving the balls untouched<br />within the casts.</td></tr>
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A very different physique for a change.</div>
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<br /><br />Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-45153894324945658642015-07-28T17:04:00.000+01:002015-07-28T17:04:17.833+01:0040th Entry - A New Face<br />
The fourth and last character, only a notion, until now.<br />
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Mr. Bernard, becoming.</div>
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Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-64116461626235976742015-07-28T16:42:00.002+01:002015-07-28T16:42:47.449+01:0039th Entry - A ReturnAfter another long pause, this time in China, work has recommenced.<br />
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Interesting how the atmosphere can so greatly affect your work flow. In April you worked with Castilene, and the room was so cold, your hands so cold, that you were forced to switch to the slightly softer and stickier Degas plastilene. Still, work was impossible without going for brisk walks or runs to try and warm your own body temperature so that your hands could work the clay.<br />
In July, that same material was so soft that you had to ignore the reason for working with a hard clay to begin with.<br />
By late July the temperature has started switching back and forth, quite ridiculously.<br />
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Between April and July you tried to simply sculpt new eyelids over the steel balls. You thought you could do this simply and quickly, but found that your hands were wandering into other areas and you were changing the entire structure of the face. To add the steel ball into the face, a hole is made, and the original eye lost forever. Creating a new eye in the place of the original is impossible, and hence, a differently positioned eye will lead to repositioning of the mouth, the brow, the jaw, and wherever else your eye may fall.<br />
You felt you might as well improve the face, but found you were only losing what you'd had, and on the week of your birthday you decided to stop. This all was senseless. You needed to find a way to get a mould out of the plaster versions from March of 2013. By now, these had long been the characters. They had traveled with you in a small tin box to Canada, and again a year later to China. The technicality of getting a hard mould from a hard object, or a soft mould that would not impede the silicone from curing, had dissuaded you from contemplating this in the past. And hence these many weeks, over the years, of battling with materials and your own inability to repeat your own creation.<br />
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In late June, after two weeks of traveling in Portugal, what had always seemed instinctively right, became necessary and a reality. You childhood bedroom became your studio. <br />
The move took two weeks.<br />
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<br />Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-70369824929840950032014-07-20T09:43:00.001+01:002014-08-06T16:39:11.208+01:0038th Entry - summer 2014 sculpture<i>Self-Portrait, 2014,</i> (June-July, 2014)<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(wire, plaster, milliput, SuperSculpey polymer clay, acrylic paint)</span><br />
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<br />Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-2417327249872759282014-01-06T05:07:00.000+00:002014-05-12T05:29:52.893+01:0037th Entry - On Hold<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Figures for <i>The Unattended Lessons</i></div>
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Sculpture for an Art Exhibition</div>
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<i>The Unattended Lessons</i> came to a halt on a day in August, 2013. </div>
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An offer for a job on a feature film came, and, as it happens, at the same time a separate offer came, a commission for a book cover.</div>
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The short commission took eleven days, and was a wonderful experience. Two days later we were on a flight to Vancouver to join the film crew.</div>
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Work should recommence in Spring of 2014.</div>
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<br />Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-31484697795468727562013-08-07T12:44:00.002+01:002013-08-07T12:45:44.489+01:0036th ENTRY - Breaking Through with Eyelids<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I</span>t is strange now, even only a day later, to look at what's been accomplished in these many months, now that finally you seem to have taken a step forward. It all seemed so impossible, and it all looks so simple now.</div>
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Below are the pictures from a quick Eyelid Mould Test. The result is not perfect, but this may also be simply due to an imperfect sculpture, as it was quickly prepared for a quick test. What is important is that the steel ball fit snugly into the mould, and there was hardly any bleed in the silicone skin.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">As suspected, the plaster is far too fragile for some of the fine details in the face. </span><br />
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You persisted with the plaster eyelids and with the tools you had, eventually coming to the cold truth that the tools you had were not enough.<br />
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You spent some time searching for 4mm round burrs and ordered some.</div>
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They took many, many days to arrive.</div>
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In the meantime you thought about the problems of new moulds, of separating head, hands, and feet, and devising a secure method for locking the armature in place into the mould, and casting separate parts that would join together precisely as you wanted.</div>
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You also thought not to risk losing the work you had done in the plaster heads, at the arrival of the burrs, and so decided to teach yourself a different method of making a mould.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eyelids - Plaster - Isolde - To make reaching the eye sockets at angles with the tool easier, a face was cast and carved, to then be placed back into the mould and joined to the rest of the head.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not having a round burr of the correct scale, carving out a precise fit for the eyeball became a clear impossibility. The eye is still too sunken.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silicone cast of Russeau's original hands, to use for making a new mould in silicone.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rubber hands, however, were so soft that it became very difficult to accurately lay the clay on top without distortion, and hence creating a negative space that was not large enough. This mould was abandoned at this stage, and the original resin mould was used to make Degas 90 Plastilene casts that would be fixed after demoulding.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the second attempt at injecting the silicone into your first approach to making a matrix mould.<br />
The first injection failed because you neglected any thought to clamp the mould down before injecting.<br />
The second attempt failed due to a large air pocket in the top (face) of the mould.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second endeavour in making a matrix mould, this time for Isolde.<br />
A key was carved in her belly, so that she would lock into the face shell of the mould.<br />
The negative space for the silicone was created in clay, over the sculpture, with wet paper towel between the clay and the sculpt. These clay keys were far more successful than the previous attempt, and a great deal better than any of the keys made in previous brush-up moulds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished mould. Plaster and PlatSil Gel 10 silicone, which was injected with a large syringe.<br />
A relatively successful mould.</td></tr>
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Head, hands, and feet are to be separated, and each with their own new mould.</div>
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This means fitting the armature precisely in the right position within the body, and designing the joining points.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Third mould of this kind.<br />
The original resin back half of the Russeau mould had deep undercuts, mostly in the ribcage. For a Degas or plaster cast you needed a rubber mould.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">injecting the silicone to finish the mould. Screws to shut bleeders.</td></tr>
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Since the clay unavoidably shifted in the Russeau figure, changing certain dimensions in the body, and forcing things to be resculpted, you worried about this happening to Isolde. Liz has already worked so many hours on the costumes for Russeau, and now is starting with Isolde. The thought of proportions changing and her work going to waste haunts you.</div>
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Since Isolde was already completely resculpted and refined previously, there is no reason to go back and change her further (though you easily could).</div>
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So how to avoid the cast from changing?</div>
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Plaster was one option to avoid things changing, but not strong enough at very fine thicknesses (clavicle area for example). You also did not want to risk trapping the armature in plaster.</div>
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Moreover, water will rust the armatures.</div>
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Above is a test using, on one half PlastoForma, by Prochima, which is described as a bioresin, a non-toxic alternative to fiberglass. </div>
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You had no fine glass fiber to test reinforcing this with, so the way you have it, the PlastoForma seems to basically be plaster with acrylic; a little lighter, less powder in the surface, but also very brittle.</div>
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The other half is Degas 90, brushed in thinly and then poured around the armature locking it in, and building more thickness. This may be the best option.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Headaches over the cut off point in the arms. Leaving the shoulders was mainly for testing dimensional changes with respect to the costumes. But the undercut that was created seemed too complicated to mould, so here you are removing the arms at the chest. The difficulty is in the way the limbs detach; rather than at a tailored, flat-fitting point mid arm, between the joints, it is in the joints themselves that you are forced to work. This is a further defect in the armature design which will need resolving in a future project.</td></tr>
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A quick mould was made to test a way for lining up the skin from two separate casts, maintaining the armature in the correct position, using keys.</div>
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The fit seems adequate.</td></tr>
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You wanted to make a rigid mould, testing two different options for the eye sockets. You cast a plaster head in two parts, in the hope that you could remove the positive from the new mould, without the mould part filling the eye socket breaking off with the positive.</div>
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So with the burr that finally arrived, you cleared out the sockets.</div>
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But what were you thinking, pouring a plaster mould and hoping to be able to remove the plaster positive afterwards.</div>
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So you started over again, and made a quick silicone mould just to test the theory.</div>
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After days away from the project, you returned with new ideas. Remove the face from a plaster cast, creating a mould into which to pour wax, while this faceless mould is fitted back into the original mould it was created in. You were hoping this might help fight the shrinkage of the wax, if the wax was indeed only a thin, flat face, without the sides of the head, which otherwise warp inwards during the shrinking.<br />
But the plaster is very hard, and half way through preparing the empty face, you came up with a different idea: to burr out the eye sockets, and re-sculpt the eyelids in clay or wax, over the plaster face.</div>
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And in doing this you enjoyed two days of pleasant sculpture, first in Degas plastilene, and then preferring to work in Castilene wax. Two days completely forgetting the terrible conclusion you had previously made, that you would not be able to make a rigid mould from a plaster head.</div>
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Returning pragmatically to reality, you spent a couple of days, yet again, trying to minimise shrinkage in wax casts. Brushing, pouring, heating the plaster mould jacket, and the silicone mould. Melting the wax from inside the mould, by blasting heat underneath, onto the jacket, with a heat gun. Every attempt to try and keep the face of the mould hotter than the wax itself, as the wax tends to warp towards heat.</div>
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Seemingly impossible to control the heat before getting to a boiling temperature, creating bubbles in the wax, you even tried heating the mould first, brushing in the wax, and submerging part of the mould in hot water to slow down the cooling process.</div>
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But in the end, no method seemed clearly superior to another, and you surrendered, returning to the Degas Plastilene, which you felt was inferior enough to the Castilene to warrant these hours of experimentation.</div>
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Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-7555191115426193842013-03-21T16:20:00.004+00:002013-03-27T21:47:12.959+00:0034th ENTRY - The Importance of Eyelids, part II<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The move from London was seemingly more of an ordeal than what I was aware of. My thoroughness resulted in a disabling flu on the day following our arrival in Italy, and this was followed by the stomach flu which took London by siege, and which I had somehow managed to avoid, or perhaps simply negotiate a temporary ceasefire until the move was completed.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Therefore I lost about a month's work due to illness and re-establishing ourselves in our new place.</i></span></blockquote>
You spent more days persisting with Castilene wax casts, battling against the pinch, the shrinkage, and with little success, carving out the eye sockets and not breaking the eyelid.<br />
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But the wax was yet another material you persisted with, with the knowledge that it was not going to work.<br />
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After trying a newly found plastilene titled Degas, and giving up before exhausting all options in the search for an epoxy resin, you found a pleasingly strong plaster, which looked at you the same way she looks when you arrive at the spot twenty minutes late, wishing you could pause life and go back and take another shower.<br />
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after the first couple of layers of plaster to leave a cavity.<br />
The castilene was then melted out with a heat gun.<br />
It is visible that the steel balls were poorly positioned.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last three Castilene casts.<br />
The melted wax was brushed thinly into the mould, for the surface coat.<br />
After cooling, one or two layers were brushed in, followed by cooler<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna, castilene. Steel balls had been melted through the eyelids, to rebuild eyelids afterwards.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new sculpture desk, Assisi studio, Italy.</td></tr>
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Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-13947739168449901502013-02-11T15:50:00.000+00:002013-06-06T14:35:34.492+01:0033rd ENTRY - Farewell TeddingtonIn December Christmas came. January was taken with packing your lives away, leaving Teddington, and moving to the Porziano studio.<br />
Another move.<br />
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You experimented further with Castilene, and then with plaster, to make Ex-Votos for 2012, and charms for 2013, as well as a piece for a small exhibition in Assisi.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Felice 2013</i>, Castilene and acrylic paint, 24th Dec., 2012.<br />
Italian Ex-Voto with head of Isolde</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fragments from an Unattended Lesson</i>, plaster, January, 2013<br />
(sold to a private collector during the Assisi exhibition on the 5th of June, 2013)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final productive days in Teddington flat.</td></tr>
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Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-49612431371229197112013-02-11T15:39:00.000+00:002013-02-11T16:00:25.835+00:0032nd ENTRY - The importance of Eyelids<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Whilst reworking Anna's previously begun skeleton, you decided it would be important to have a head mould with the eyeballs incorporated. This way the silicone cast would have clean eyelids.<br />
How to do this, in your situation, has had you puzzled for days.<br />
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You started attempting to achieve decent casts in Castilene, and found this nearly impossible. The wax would cool too quickly when hitting the mould, and the eyes just wouldn't stay in place.<br />
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The fact that the mould is made from Platsil Gel 10, a very soft silicone (which you chose so as not to damage the soft wax original after making the mould, and to be able to then subsequently make a rigid mould from it as well), meant that you could not put pressure on the balls in place whilst casting the wax heads, without causing distorion.<br />
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You tried casting a solid Castilene face without the balls. Carving out the holes from behind was terribly tricky, and things get very delicate.<br />
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You then thought about a different solution to hold the eyes in place whilst casting wax. You tried a resin cast of the head with beads in place, and carving part of the face away to leave space for the wax to fill. Failing with this you tried carving away the entire face, leaving only the beads. Again the softness of the rubber mould made things impossible.<br />
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It must be said, once again, that those with years of experience will be watching you like a young animal in slow motion attempting to stand on your thin little legs for the first time, like a giraffe, who on day one falls from that high womb, and moments later is already struggling to stand. Only your struggle is slowed down to 800,556.33 frames per second.</div>
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Clearly you had to go through all those steps, all those blind attempts, to then return, as it often happens, to the first and most obvious method. Brushing the wax in thinly and carving out carefully. But just make sure the wax starts out hot enough. A hotter substance will cool slightly slower than a less hot substance. And extending the wax out onto the flange will also make a startling difference with the shrinkage problem.<br />
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left: Castilene. Centre: Chavant (hard). Right: Y2Klay.<br />
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You have been romantically inclined towards a marriage with Fimo Air Light and Polymorph, for building the skeletal structure of the figures. But this has shown itself to be flawed, and you have tried and tried, and put much hope and belief into it, resulting in little success.<br />
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So what to do? Use EasyFlow, as you did for the clavicle? Epoxy putty? Polyurithane putty like what Hanano uses? Nothing at all, and rig the puppets if needed?<br />
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But your instinct keeps telling you to persevere with the Polymorph and Fimo Air, even though it seems to be getting you nowhere.<br />
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The real underlying issue here is the same issue that has influenced so many of the decisions made during this project: you are working from home, so you give priority to any material that is non-toxic.</div>
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After spending many hours struggling to get Polymorph to hold a desired shape, you moved to DualWood. Then, wishing to avoid the fumes, you tried with Castilene.</div>
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Yesterday you bought a tub of plaster from Tiranti. You have been considering this but not committing to it. Now you have the option to make a wax shaped skeleton, and a "quick" mould in plaster, from which to cast in Easyflow, or press Fimo Air, or whatever. You worked with the wax last night (up 18.5 hours yesterday), and went to bed wondering about going back to trying the polymorph and Fimo one last time. Amazing. Who knows what you will do next.<br />
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Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-55642072510301141952012-11-26T15:33:00.001+00:002012-11-26T15:36:18.689+00:0031st ENTRY - Final ArmaturesAnd here are the final armatures.<br />
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Design credits go to Tobias Feltus, Professor Donald Holwill, myself, and Edward Sams at John Wright Modelmaking, who brilliantly understood my needs, and assembled these functional works of art.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My clavicle design, refined by Edward Sams, using bronze and steel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna, Isolde, Russeau, and Mr. Bernard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forearm design by Tobias Feltus</td></tr>
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<br />Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-45589582645731578642012-11-20T13:36:00.001+00:002012-11-20T15:41:37.022+00:0030th ENTRY - Cutlery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
A fork, a spoon, and a knife. These are hand filed from a sheet of aluminium.</div>
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The colour is not as I would like. Metal from a tomato can seems to be the ideal tone, but cans are not thick enough. Aluminium is too cold.</div>
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They are quite imperfect. The knife (last of the three made) was looking pretty good, until I found my measurements were off, and in shortening it, lost some of the shape in the handle. And the fork has oddnesses as well.</div>
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The spoon was the one I worried would be least successful, as the metal sheet was not thick enough for the depth of the spoon, but it actually seems ok.</div>
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I could certainly do with a vice.</div>
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<br />Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-8986884227055488042012-11-15T23:36:00.003+00:002012-11-16T11:37:39.586+00:0029th ENTRY - Material MattersThroughout the duration of this project I have felt that I was always missing something, that out there was a product that was much better suited to whatever it was that I was doing. More often than not, I was right to think this.<br />
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When I started sculpting, I knew about Plastilene, and that it was the preferred product for special effects artists, for example. But the romantic side of me chose to ignore a product made from dried clay powder and motor oil, and instead to work with wax, a far more traditional and "cleaner" substance.<br />
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My lack of experience brought me to settle for Tiranti's White Modelling Wax, which I sculpted all my figures in, and which I felt quite comfortable with. But the main problems were two. First, being an off white colour, it was necessary to have a particular kind of harsh and very even light in order to see the form properly. Secondly, being soft modelling wax, there was a limit to the amount of detailing one could achieve.<br />
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I spent hours throughout the months going back and searching for clues as to what materials were used to sculpt the impressively detailed high end action figures, such as <a href="http://studiomadeinpb.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/artistas-que-voce-precisa-conhecer-adam-gu/#" target="_blank">Adam Gu</a>'s Heath Ledger Joker sculpt. But my searches strangely came to no conclusions, until very recently, when I discovered <a href="http://www.castilene.com/" target="_blank">Castilene</a>. And low and behold, this product is now part of the <a href="http://www.chavant.com/" target="_blank">Chavant</a> family.<br />
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Today I received a sample from the only European distributor I have found, which is in Germany.<br />
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All I can say is Blo%$@ F&%$*^g H£)(!!!!!!!<br />
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It is a very nice product.<br />
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Tiranti's Blue Carving Wax (impossible to cast in, shrinks terribly, is plasticky, and far too dark to see any detail)<br />
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Chavant's Castilene modelling compound (casts well, can be sculpted, carved, filed, sanded, built up by melting little bits and applying drops directly to the cold model. Seems great).<br />
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Tiranti's White Modelling Wax (what I used to sculpt the figures. Very nice to work with, but too pale to see detail, and too soft to achieve tight detail. This bust is how she came out from the version II mould).<br />
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Tiranti's Yellow Modelling Wax - Type B (got some of this intending it for the wax sculpture of Isolde in the film, wanting a beeswax look. It is very soft, sticky, and impossible to see any form or detail at all!)<br />
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More of the white wax.</td></tr>
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Blue Wax<br />
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Here is a very useful guide to Castilene - Castilene Compendium: <a href="http://www.castilene.com/smocreations/smocreations.pdf">http://www.castilene.com/smocreations/smocreations.pdf</a>Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-2016375929195492012-11-15T18:11:00.001+00:002012-12-19T16:59:27.189+00:0028th ENTRY - Eyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: center;">4mm balls are not easy to create.</span><br />
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Earlier on I attempted ideas of sculpting a positive full eyeball including the bulge of the cornea, to then mould and perhaps cast in two parts, inner eye separate from cornea. But of course at this scale it is probably impossible, and even my attempts at casting a perfect ball in the blue hard wax failed to begin with.<br />
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All along, my main concern regarding the eyes has been to achieve a realistic cornea, bulging out slightly from the rest of the eyeball, and being a transparent lens over the iris. My frustrations about sculpting eyelids over flattened beads were recorded in entries 10 and 15.<br />
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The tutorials available online, ranging from the <a href="https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/videos/how-to-make-eyes" target="_blank">Stan Winston School</a>, to an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCG9G0HRgJk&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">odd Southern American gentleman's own technique</a>, have all been very illuminating, but also not much help to someone working at 1:6 scale.<br />
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Doll makers and hobbyists brought me closer to the solution, suggesting liquid Fimo, or UV resins, which I'd had no experience with.<br />
But most helpful was the example of the brilliant artist from Japan, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOosX3SwLiQ&list=PLA1C7805ECE6EE10B&index=19&feature=plpp_video" target="_blank">Hanano</a>, who makes the most arrestingly beautiful ball jointed dolls, and whose work I find myself deeply admiring.<br />
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As <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hFsQmNBVBw&list=PLA1C7805ECE6EE10B&index=16&feature=plpp_video" target="_blank">his eyes</a> are only one or two millimetres larger than mine, and yet perfectly crafted, his work was the closest thing to the answers I was looking for.<br />
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Hence, between moments of much research and despair, the evolution of eyes for this project has been as follows:<br />
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During my mould-making expedition in Scotland,</div>
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Tobias started thinking about a solution,</div>
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using the beads, sanding down a 2mm flat surface,</div>
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spray painting them white,</div>
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A solution to the cornea had not yet been found.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First tests by Tobias Feltus, 26/02/2012</td></tr>
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Later on I attempted using a mask for the 2mm</div>
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drawing the circle!</div>
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properly, and didn't try resin, who knows why.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">After much research I managed to find<br />
a supplier in the UK of German glass<br />
doll eyes, so I ordered a few to sample.<br />
They are very nice, pretty much the right<br />
scale, but not round on the back where<br />
they are attached to wire. The idea of the<br />
balls not being perfectly round on the<br />
back worried me that they might not<br />
work well in the eye sockets.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">Here I tried making a quick cornea on two beads<br />
with soft wax, and painted them.<br />
I suppose I was thinking about the possibility<br />
of there being no other way than to have a solid ball,<br />
cornea and all, and just a gloss varnish overtop. <br />
The third test was a sanded down iris, painted with<br />
Humbrol paints, and varnished with a thick coat of<br />
Humbrol gloss coat.<br />
I also tested the Humbrol gloss coat thick, casting<br />
it into the nose of a silicone mould.</td></tr>
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Final approach. Silicone mould.</div>
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Two layers of beads, the lower level to</div>
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sink the negative space of the mould</div>
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a back of a ball as possible.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished test.<br />
EasyFlow 120 cast.<br />
2mm iris drilled in.<br />
Smaller hole shallowly drilled for pupil.<br />
Iris and pupil painted with acrylic inks.<br />
Cornea built with Clear IBD Builder Gel,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;">After testing to see if the UV Gel withstood<br />
being drilled into, for animation purposes,<br />
I decided it was a pity to put a hole through<br />
the lens, and decided to try making tiny holes<br />
around the iris, in the white of the eye.<br />
I made four holes - top, bottom, left, right.</td></tr>
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Gütermann Renaissance beads, 4mm - The only 4mm beads I was able to find before beginning sculpting the figures.<br />
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Chavant Plastilene, Lego, and PlatSil Gel 10 for the mould.<br />
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Dremel.<br />
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Wire Gauge HSS Twist Drill bits<br />
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Small brush.<br />
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Liquitex or Daler Rowney acrylic inks and Liquitex Gloss Medium & Varnish.<br />
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ibd Builder Gel - Cear (UV Gel for Natural Nail Overlays and Pedicures, 14g)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2L7uLMML5E&feature=plcp">This introduction was useful</a><br />
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UV Multi System Curing Lamp (I got a Star Nails by United Beauty one on ebay).<br />
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Alcohol.<br />
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<i>I believe many months ago (years), when I started looking for beads for eyes, and at 4mm was able only to find the barely sufficient plastic pearls I ended up using, I must have considered the idea of body piercing surgical steel balls. However, this thought was probably dismissed, as the steel would not work for final eyeballs (painted and all).</i></div>
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<i>Now that I have managed the eyeball creation, as above, the best thing for the sculpting process would have been surgical steel balls, and indeed they do exist at 4mm, and are perfect, and even threaded!</i></div>
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<i>I ordered some after having an epiphany, after more discouragement in not finding 4mm metal beads. I will use them during my eye socket creation with the Castilene casts.</i></div>
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Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716939470742727608.post-34211320733157517772012-10-22T16:23:00.000+01:002013-03-24T09:44:09.738+00:0027th ENTRY - A Re-Proportioned Isolde<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I work to my best abilities, knowing that this is the best I can do, whist at the same time suffering a nagging little notion that if only I allowed myself to push a little further, I could do better. And the thought that this might be my last chance, that later, for one reason or another, I will not have this opportunity, or my talent will fade, which seems to happen, and therefore no, it will not do, I must do better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With the decision and need for a new armature, Isolde's bad proportions, which had been forced by the first armature, were open for adjustment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Since Liz was struggling so much with trying to work out a functioning pattern for a dress to fit Isolde, adding more pleats and length in places that shouldn't need them, I felt she would understand and welcome my intentions to go back and re-sculpt Isolde.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I told her I would spend two or three days fixing her proportions. I would then make a new mould, cast a new costume mannequin, and take the new mould to John Wright for the new armature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Eleven weeks later I had accomplished this.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The white modelling wax doesn't melt down very well, so it doesn't really pour into a mould. I managed to brush and dab it in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I sliced up one half cast (front half) as a three dimensional sketch,<br />
shortening her proportions.<br />
I then brushed up a new full cast (front and back made separately)<br />
and followed where I had cut and shortened the "sketch".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New tool. I noticed that sculptors tend to use a rake-like tool<br />
to help keep the shapes clear and visible. I never studied<br />
sculpture, so am constantly learning.<br />
I made these two tools with sewing pins and polymorph.<br />
Love them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finally purchased a Dremel, after spending hours <br />
filing hard wax into a bottle and bowl, and reluctantly spending far too<br />
long hand grinding down the armatures where needed, and often <br />
just avoiding doing it. So now I was able to shorten the feet a little.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another majour frustration. Light. Uneven light was making<br />
it so tricky to see what I was doing.<br />
I moved around the room a lot, as the window light<br />
was affecting the lamp light. Finally I went and got a fluorescent<br />
magnifying lamp, and moved from the centre of the room<br />
to right between the two windows. And I was<br />
blessed with a freebee desk on my morning walk.</td></tr>
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I know how artists are able to reach what others might describe as perfection, and then keep pushing things forward, sometimes losing that previous state of perfection and never regaining it again. Innocent bystanders see the work as what it is, every time they look at it. But often elements will either bother, or be lacking for the artist, who will keep pushing forward, unaware of the present successful state of the work. Often this means that the work changes dramatically and only a subtle ghost of that previous state remains.</div>
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The two images above are dated exactly one month apart.</div>
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I found that I would keep reworking things over and over again, even though the bystanders thought things looked good as they were. I would then look back at the pictures of previous states, and struggle to see what had changed.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Legs were still too long. Then too short. Then too long again.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liz came in and looked, and, although I had reworked the hand down<br />
in scale quite a bit, noted that they still looked enormous.<br />
When I got my new lamp, I also picked up some thin copper wire.<br />
I was annoyed by the thickness of the aluminium wire I had for fingers,<br />
and this very fine stuff seemed just as strong, if not stronger,<br />
and the fact that it had more memory bothered me little<br />
given the fact that it was so pleasantly thin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In my constant research, which mostly fails to find anything<br />
useful, I finally came across pages about artists who<br />
sculpt action figures using hard wax casts of their<br />
initial sculptures for fine tuning the details by carving.<br />
This seemed like the way to do it, but I need to find the right<br />
wax, and it will be for next time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I tested my new mould concept, described in the previous entry.<br />
It looked promising.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, I started using Lego.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feet are something done differently this time.<br />
She is on her toes to avoid verticals in the mould.<br />
I also embedded nuts in the mould.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Successful silicone master.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quick resin cast from the silicone. Interesting how<br />
light behaves differently with a different material.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unfortunately one ear was crushed whilst I removed the<br />
rubber mould. I cast a new one from the rubber mould, but of course<br />
nothing is so simple. Getting it to fit back in place is impossible,<br />
so it required much work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wax walls surrounding figure to leave flashing canals.<br />
I also brushed a thin coat of resin onto the face and some other<br />
areas to protect them and force me to accept that they<br />
were finished.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">hands will be separate pieces of the top half of the mould.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As she had been sculpted in pieces, she came out in pieces.<br />
A pleasant surprise that she resisted much less than previous<br />
figures. Nearly intact. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My best mould yet. And by far the slowest.<br />
Because the resin heats up when it cures, I was advised to<br />
keep layers thin, to avoid heating up too much and warping.<br />
This made the process ever so slow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Costume mannequin armature. Wire and polymorph.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silicone cast - costume mannequin. Flashing canals helped.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isolde version I, and Isolde version II.<br />
Was it worth all that trouble?<br />
Yes.<br />
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P.s. her nose had an air bubble,<br />
but being a costume mannequin I left it.</td></tr>
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My design of the join in the upper arms of the puppets, allowing for the arm and hand to be replaced, was not very successful. I knew it would be impossible to achieve a perfect join in this way, but at the time it was the best solution I could think of.</div>
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After experiencing the mould-making process as well as silicone as a material, I have come up with a new solution for the future.</div>
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Maintain the sculpture intact. Make three moulds at once - Mould 1 for body, Mould 2 and 3 in a second step for arms with hands.</div>
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In step 1, make the bed and walls for the figure, with a clay wall cutting off the arms.</div>
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Step 2, clean away the clay wall separating the arm to reveal the resin from the body mould made in step 1.</div>
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Make a guide in the upper arm, lower down than the mould wall, which will be the cut line for replacing an arm. This guideline should be made into the sculpture as well as into the mould bed (see bottom of the page in <i>Fig. 1</i>).</div>
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This should give three moulds. It will probably be a positive thing to have a separate mould for each arm, as rarely will both hands need to be replaced at the same time, and it is confusing to know which part of the two halves of a mould correspond during casting when there are two separate elements in the mould and one only wants to cast one.</div>
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With this method, during casting of a replacement hand the upper arm will fit into the hand mould and the cast will adhere to it directly in this stage, instead of requiring a joining stage post casting (F<i>ig. 2</i>).</div>
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<i>Note: </i>It may be a good idea to devise a way to fix the three moulds together for the first complete casting, though perhaps not important.</div>
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Also, feet have been problematic in the mould-making process, as well as in the casting phase, because of their vertical position. </div>
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Feet should next time be either spread out sideways, or, and probably preferably, in order to avoid twisting leg muscles, pointing straight down as a ballet position.<br />
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As Tobias has not yet finished sculpting Mr. Bernard, I may suggest that he try this approach.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Entry: Wednesday October 3rd, 2012</span></div>
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Before making the new mould from the re-sculpted Isolde, I decided it was important to test the above theory.</div>
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I used the silicone "dress mannequin" cast from the original Isolde for this test. The fact that this figure was a thick silicone cast made moulding her a bit tricky, as she tended to move around a bit, and her thumb popped out of the first half of the resin mould (the bed).</div>
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But, although it was a very crude test, I believe it was successful.</div>
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Before the test, however, I did succumb to a nostalgic weakness, and took the bus to Kingston to enjoy some moments in a toy shop, surrounded by Lego.</div>
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I cannot claim it as my own idea to use Lego blocks for mould-making walls, but they are wonderfully therapeutic, and do the job quite nicely. Fascinating how much fun they still are.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Figure resting face down. Water based clay built up for her resin back part of the mould (which I refer to as bed).<br />I brought the clay quite high up, making deep undercuts, as she will be cast in rubber, and for the arm replacement process, the bed needs to be shallow enough for her to lay in it easily.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the first step, I made two little notches in the clay, following the cut seam line in the arm. These will be a guide for cutting the arm off, and for lining it up in the mould.<br />Here above I separated the arm with a clay wall. I used two toothpicks sticking through the clay wall which would be embedded into the resin, and act as forks to hold together the two parts of the upper mould. In the proper mould I will use steel pins, probably hex keys.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Second part poured, after removing the clay wall.<br />This picture was taken after everything had cured and I had removed the Lego walls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before pouring the two top parts of the mould, I laid down strips of clay to leave trenches. These will allow excess silicone to escape during casting, without blocking the mould from closing tightly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A new silicone cast from this mould. The arm looks messy because the original was so, from my previous bad method of joining arm to body.<br />However, the cut line was visible, making it easy to cut off the arm using the guideline. The arm came off a la Terminator II.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Figure laying in bed, with bare armature arm in place for new skin.</td></tr>
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Today I am terribly confused. The one thing I was sure of with regards to working with silicone, from reading guidance sheets of the products themselves, and from speaking to people, was, at all costs, to avoid using water based clay for mould making. This would inhibit the silicone from curing.<br />
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The disaster in Lauder in which the other oil based clay, from Flockart, contaminated my entire work environment with, I assumed, sulphur, was proof of this danger. It did not occur to me to question whether the water clay I had also contained sulphur or any sort of inhibitor.<br />
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I never attempted building a mould with natural water based clay (apart from the first half of the grandmother mould in Italy, which however was nowhere near any contact with silicone).<br />
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Hence every mould I have made following Madame Fontaine has been prepared using Chavant oil based clay, which does not dissolve the way water based clay will with water, and hence is very difficult to make good seam lines up against the sculpture for the two halves of the mould.<br />
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Although the clay I used was either grey or terracotta colour, and the figures pale wax, it was still impossible to clean the clay away from the figure without pulling away chunks of the sculpture. The two materials had similar consistencies, and could be softened or diluted only with the same solvents, such as lighter fluid or white spirit.<br />
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Last night I had dinner with Andrea Leanza, and whilst talking about moulds, I found that he knew of no reason to be wary of using water based clay with silicone, and wondered how ever one would build up the walls without it.<br />
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I came home quite puzzled. I felt that everyone I had ever spoke to about this had strongly advised me to stay away from water clay. At the same time, many of the tutorials I had looked at used water clay.<br />
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Water based clay will clean off the sculpture and the mould easily without harming the sculpture.<br />
Out of some strange misinformed notion I proceeded the very hard way.<br />
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Today I cleaned out the recently finalised mould of Russeau's hands, and cast them for the costume mannequin, leaving some extra silicone to use as a test on the Deruta water clay my parents brought up with them when they drove here from Assisi, which I nearly threw away a number of times, but somehow kept just in case.<br />
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To my bewilderment it seems the silicone cured perfectly well on the water clay.<br />
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Every day I feel like starting over again completely.<br />
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Every mould I have made has been imperfect for a few reasons, but the fact that I thought I could not use water clay is probably the biggest factor in preventing me from making good moulds.<br />
Why I never took 20 minutes to test the two elements together I do not know.Joseph Feltushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12087333250640438567noreply@blogger.com0