So I make masks with specially gathered cloth & papermarche. but I'm super curious about more sculpting masses or other materials used, so if anyone knows how or what I should try to find then please write! or if you by chance know of a theatre prop making school or place? WRITE WRITE!
dood look into paper mache made out of this stuff, this cellulose building insulation + wheat paste, if you mix it just right it's really sticky but liquid moldable. You can get a couple neat textures but it's good to have a pretty strong (could be fabric/cheese cloth for a base surface) structure
and when it dries after about a week (depending on how thick you put it on) you can sand and paint. i don't remember the brand of the stuff i used. it is still water soluble after drying.
hey bro llok in google for magic sculpt, its like super sculpey but you dont need to bake it, and its like epoxy clay but it dont hard to soon, its an exelent material
I've made some out of modroc before, pretty quick and easy, you can take direct moulds from your face... but I would like to be able to use a different material too, like plastic. Maybe if anyone knows how to make a cast from a modroc mould, you could then use the cast (which would be an exact copy of your face) to spend as much time working on it as you like with materials that don't try as fast as modroc
I have this friend at a theatre that makes wigs with... stuff I can't remember the name, but it looks like dreadlocks made out of fabric leftovers. I think you can get it at factories and most people use it to stuff pillows or clean oily things (I'm a pirate at describing things, I know). Once, I bought tights at a chinese store and stuffed them with this stuff to make it look like a giant U-pillow. It was 2 meters high when I finished it. I called it Alexander and left it on the floor. It's been there ever since.
anyway. a mask made out of trash and beads, lots of beads in the structure, not for decoration. it would have a nice texture... and would be almost impossible to make! aaaah don't listen to me.
Modroc.. i don't know how you could get some though.. if you haven't heard of it, it's like a lightweight gauze with plaster on it.. you dip it in water and then you can shape it however, it's easy to paint on after it's dry as well
*merimask and ~VirtualMessiah came up among the most popular artisan crafts > leather when I clicked "all time"; they have very decorative masks. ~cwicseolfor has more masks, along with photos of works still in progress. I've seen other leather masks as DDs, but these were the first three artists I found in the leather section that had popular mask deviations. Hope that helps!
and when it dries after about a week (depending on how thick you put it on) you can sand and paint. i don't remember the brand of the stuff i used. it is still water soluble after drying.
Maybe if anyone knows how to make a cast from a modroc mould, you could then use the cast (which would be an exact copy of your face) to spend as much time working on it as you like with materials that don't try as fast as modroc
I have this friend at a theatre that makes wigs with... stuff I can't remember the name, but it looks like dreadlocks made out of fabric leftovers. I think you can get it at factories and most people use it to stuff pillows or clean oily things (I'm a pirate at describing things, I know).
Once, I bought tights at a chinese store and stuffed them with this stuff to make it look like a giant U-pillow. It was 2 meters high when I finished it. I called it Alexander and left it on the floor. It's been there ever since.
anyway. a mask made out of trash and beads, lots of beads in the structure, not for decoration. it would have a nice texture... and would be almost impossible to make! aaaah don't listen to me.
if you haven't heard of it, it's like a lightweight gauze with plaster on it.. you dip it in water and then you can shape it however, it's easy to paint on after it's dry as well
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link me to them masks by the way! I am curioze!