I know, two blogs in one day is verging on crazy but it has been one disastrous day!! Went into Uni this morning thinking "I'm going to be very productive today - crack on with my bodysuit, mould my head..." Then the minute I get in the door I had Caz telling me that my Grinch face has been damaged!!
Here's the damage done...
So some careless cleaner waltzes into the workshop, having a little sweep around, probably has a good look at my handy work, turns around and stabs it in the face with her handle!
Part of me thinks she did do it out of jealousy...
I know it looks pretty minor but it took me just over and hour to a) get over it and b) re-shape the new nose back on which put a hole in my expected productive day.
The observant ones among you will notice that the new nose is slightly smaller - those of you who haven't noticed, scroll down and compare - and as a matter of fact I prefer this nose to the other... NOT THAT I WASN'T HAPPY WITH IT BEFORE!!
After the mornings trauma I built this little housing for it this afternoon. This is basically so that we could lie it flat and fill it with plaster to create another mould.
Second stress of the day was that Richard isn't sure whether its 100% going to work. The last similar head mould he took apart the clay fell apart as well as the mould and was a complete right-off... UH OH! So he was worried that by just filling the bowl with plaster covering the face that the same might happen.
After a little while of heart to heart discussions we decided that we would just go for it and fill it entirely with plaster. Other options were discussed but I thought we should take the risk!
We are going to leave it dry completely so I have to wait until MONDAY to find out if it has worked or not... Don't think I'm going to be able to sleep!!
If all goes to plan the plaster mould will come away from the head and I will have a negative plaster version of my sculpted face. The idea is then to fill this negative with green gelatine which will then be the face piece that I stick onto Charlie. Wish me luck!!
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