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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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