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How to Make a Life Cast Sculpture  
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Tags: Life Cast Sculpture, Cast Sculptures, Sculptures, Fun Art Projects

Immortilize yourself with a cast sculpture of your hands. Here is how you can create this magnificent piece of artwork.

1.	Think about what you want to express and decide which hand shape will express that for you.
2.	Make a container the size of your hand out of cardboard or foam core.
3.	Mix dermagel mold material to pour into your mold. Measure 3 cups dermagel into a ziploc bag. Measure 4 1/2 cups water in a bowl. Pour water into the ziploc bag with the dermagel. Mix until smooth -- work quickly, it gets firm in 4 minutes or so. Pour dermagel into your container 1/2 inch from the surface.
4.	Put your hand in the mold, and keep it as still as possible. After about 5 minutes (when dermagel is firm), release hand sowly by wiggling your fingers and separating the mold edge from your hand.
5.	Cut off any unnecessary material that wrapped around your fingers. There should be no severe undercuts. If there are you will be digging dermagel out with a tooth pick from your final sculpture.
6.	Clean your mess with water.
7.	Prepare clean bowls and water for Gardencast.
8.	Mix Gardencast : Sift 1 1/2 cups sand 2 1/2 cups Gardencast into 3/4 cup water. You are aiming for very grainy pancake batter. Add 1 Tbsp of concrete colorant. Use a wire whisk or drill attachment or hand to mix. Let it rest for about 5 minutes.
9.	Pour Gardencast into the most shallow place in the mold, usually the palm. Let the liquid do the work.
10.	Fill until covered and wait about 10 minutes.
11.	Insert hardware and sign your piece. Keep an eye on firmness. You want the hardware to sink in but not disappear; one minute it is like quicksand and the next it can get too hard to put your hardware in.
12.	Scrape your signature into the Gardencast.
13.	Wait until it is hard -- at least an hour or over night.
14.	Strip away container and dermagel surrounding your hand and behold your glorious hand sculpture.
15.	Chase away any imperfections with a butter knife.

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