Multiples: Alginate Moulding

I know i haven’t finished my plaster mould just yet but im getting to it. In the meantime we had a new moulding technique in the 3D workshop, alginate moulding. Alginate is basically the stuff thats used to mould body parts and faces because its skin safe and relatively quick drying. You start off by mixing up the powdered alginate at a 50 grams of powder to 100ml of water ratio. Next you just mix up the powder and water not whipping the mixture up, you don’t want air bubbles, and it forms a really thick creamy paste thing. Then you just apply it to the chosen body part making sure to vaseline any hairy bits.

The alginate powder and water waiting to be mixed.

 

 

 

Because i've been looking at shoes i decided to mould my foot, because i might decide to do something with it as part of the brief. It was pretty cold and really annoying to try and keep my foot still for so long, it did this massive twitch on its own halfway through but all in all i got a pretty good mould out of it.

Getting the alginate between my toes

Waiting for the alginate to dry

when the alginate is dry mod rock is put over it to create a solid base for the mould

 When it was all dried i managed to get it off my foot intact and closed up the missing ankle bit with some more mod rock so plaster could be poured in it (make sure to vaseline up any exposed mod rock). I was lucky enough to get two plaster pours before my alginate shrivelled up over the weekend.