Hand Moulds

The Hand moulds were created similar to my previous efforts on my last film. The only different was that this time was a single piece of aluminium wire was used, running through out the hands. This was to reduce tension found when twisting wire. Later wrists were supported with copper wire and then glued into pieces of K&S to make them detachable.

Theodor's Hands:

The Miro's Hands:

The hand sculpts were made from Super Sculpey Firm photos for this process can be found below.

Theodor's Hands:

The Miro's Hands:

The hands were then laid up in plasticine ( I did attempt to use terracotta clay, but found the sculpts got dirty so I returned to a material I was more comfortable with). Foam board boxes were then built up around the laid up hands and plaster was poured over the top.

Theodor's Hands:

The Miro's Hand's:

Once the first half had of the mould had been cleaned, pieces of plasticine were added around the hands to reduce the seem line. the first half was then returned to the foam board boxed and and brushed with a thin layer of vaseline.

Theodor's Hand's:

The Miro's Hands:

 

The silicon hands will be blogged in a later post.