Creating Facemask from Alginate

Mermaid

In this video you will learn:

Mermaid nostrils sculpture project, Alginate Facemask, Plaster process, hands-on crafting and creating with warmth. Ceramic shell through sand dipping in the “Slurry” room, and Finishing touch with sculptnouveau.com patina

Making the Mermaid nostrils was the fourth project in sculpture class; I am hooked. It’s all about creating with your hands, and I am “SO THERE.”  We are creating a facemask starting with Alginate which is gauzed dipped into wet plaster and laid across my face. They put cotton balls gently in my nostrils so I could breath.

Once the Alginate hardened it was slowly removed from my face. I let it cool and held the form to pour warm wax into the shell. When that hardened we could alter our “Face” I added starfish to create a Mermaid face.

Find out more about this method here.

Off to the “Slurry” room where it is dipped many times in different coarseness of sand, which creates a ceramic shell. After the shell was created lots of work was done to clean up the sculpture. At the end, a patina was used they are chemical tints by Sculpt Nouveau.