Rubber + Plaster Mould

The silicone was pink and sticky, very pink and very sticky. The second time I used the silicone it was just to cover up the extra bumps and layers that dripped away the first time. The third time I moved away from the taffy consistency of the wet silicone and added a rectangular border of already dried blue silicone and some smaller pieces of silicone all around as anchors for when it would be in the plaster mould. This time we used a faster drying silicone to keep the border on it was yellow and more like rubbery cheese. Finally when that was done we used some Vaseline and started to layer the silicone with a plaster mould.

 The plaster part consists of three or four layers, but for each side. You create the mould for one side and then the other. The first is a more watery and smoother plaster that is placed onto the sculpture with a certain flick of the wrist that the Maestro has mastered and that I fumbled grandly. Luckily I’m stubborn and though I splashed myself a bit I finally did manage to cover the entire half each time. The plaster has an initial splat as it hits the mould and the remainder flicks off in little splashes, but generally adheres every small crack of the statue, slipping on like a white robe over the pink silicone.