Checking out Fran's project

My friend and classmate Fran is doing some leather moulding for one of her costumes. In order to do this she needs a cast of her models head. So we’ve grabbed a couple of our friends from Tech Arts to help her out and make a mould, and then cast of the models head. I got to tag along and learn about the process a little bit as well. Though I still don’t think I’d be able to do it on my own quite yet. first you cover the head in plastic wrap and then you rub Vaseline all on the face, making sure to thoroughly coat the hairline as the  plaster will want to stick to it, get caught in it, and possibly rip it out :( Then start flicking and dripping the plaster on the head, just half of it though as you're going to make a seam line to take the two pieces apart and put them back together etc.

 once that is done use plaster coated gauze to strengthen the mould and to create the seam line

 then start adding it to the face, it is important to do the nose very carefully, the model must strongly exhale to ensure that the nose doesn't get clogged up and can
 still be used to breathe through whilst they plaster the entire face.

the finished mould!