Moore College Video

Moore College put together this video of info on various Alumni, including me (eeep!).
Check it out and keep your eyes peeled for some images from PSG classes!

Jed Morfit: Demold Video

Sometimes there are sculpture emergencies and you realize you need more mold release/plaster/clay/rubber/etc asap and the store you normally get it from is closed/doesn't have any/is back ordered 2 weeks/etc. This is when you turn to your sculptor friends and hope to heck they have some. Last weekend (or the weekend before last?) I got a text from Jed Morfit, looking for some FGR 95. We don't use the stuff often so I wasn't sure that we had any but a dig around the studio turned up about 1/3 of a 50lb. bag. Success! I was happy to help because I've had those moments too (always with mold release for some reason?) and know exactly how it feels! Anyway, check out this quick demold video Jed made!

De-mold video!

So there are a few things to note about demolding a waste mold...like the fact that you want to point your chisel away from the piece. I like to chisel into the mold and then once the chisel is in the plaster, shift the chisel to an angle that is pointing away from the piece. Also it's nice to have sandbags so you can rest your piece on them while demolding. This piece was small so it wasn't a huge issue, but its certainly helpful. And in case anyone was wondering what the huge bunch of stuff under the guys head is in the finished sculpture...it's a maquette for a piece I wanted to do of our friend Tim, where he's sleeping and has a huge beard of bees...I still have to pick the plaster from the mold off of alot of those "bees" but alot of it came off really easily...yay!