How to make a Plaster Waste Mold from your sculpture

Description & Keywords This video is about how to make a plaster waste mold, from a sculpted clay figure. This is a traditional classical technique for producing a fine work of sculpture. The figure is a female bust. 1:04 Reasons to put your work into plaster 1:13 Materials and Tools 1:34 Step 1 Shimming 1:38 ** Step 1 Locating the Parting Line 1:54 ** Step 1 Inserting the Shims 2:17 ** Step 1 Making the Keys # 3:11 Step 2 Blue Coat 3:53 ** Step 2 Throwing the Plaster # 4:30 Step 3 The Mold Case 4:45 ** Step 3 Mold Case - Adding Reinforcement 4:59 ** Step 3 - Top Coat # 5:19 Step 4 Opposite Half 5:50 ** Step 4 - Blue Coat 6:15 ** Step 4 - Reinforcement # 6:27 Step 5 Mold Separation # 7:53 Step 6 Mold Preparation # 9:38 Step 7 Pouring the Plaster 10:23 ** Step 7 - Adding reinforcement # 12:05 Step 8 Break Out - Wasting the Mold Tools & Materials Mixing Bowles Mrs. Stuart’s Laundry Bluing Plastic wrap Mold soap Soft badger brush, or make up brush Scissors Canvass Pliers Pencil Vaseline Quart measuring cups Rubber gloves No. One potting plaster About Mrs. Stewarts Laundry Bluing; Your plaster will take on a slight coloration from your mold. If you use an ocher color, your plaster will have an earthy tone. If you use a red, your plaster will take on a pinkish tone. Mrs Stewarts Laundry Bluing is used to make your white laundry whiter. The Blue pigment is transitory, and will fade with a little sunlight. The bluing will make your plaster just a little brighter. Therefore the old timers adopted Mrs Stewarts Laundry Bluing.