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Greetings all, Steven Whyte Sculpture Studios in Historic Cannery Row, Monterey CA

Hello, and thanks for the invite! My name is Joe Lester and I'm the Chicago area.
I've been asked to show a picture....lets see if this works:





I sculpted it out of a water based ceramic clay called Michigan White. I sculpted it over a lifecast of a person, and its larger than life size. This is because the final mask will be latex, and latex always shrinks a certain percentage.

I waited until the sculpt had become firm to make the moldmaking easier. I made the mold out of Ultracal 30, in two parts, with the dividing line down the sides and around the ears. Undercuts weren't a problem because the clay was easily dug out of the finished mold. The teeth were the only part I had to pay a lot of attention to while sculpting to make sure they didn't have undercuts behind them at all.

The final item was made into a latex mask by the absorbtion method, just like with ceramics. You pour in the latex, wait a while, and pour it out, and it forms a skin inside. When dry, this is pealed out, and that is the finished mask, ready to be trimmed and painted.

What did you use as a resist?

K