Liquid Latex and Molds

The first major Amazon shipment arrived and there are lots of new toys to play with! I'm working on filling out my fancy new makeup case with plenty of staples and new things to try.

I got some plastic mold trays of wounds that work with liquid latex:

So I did some pouring the night before (it takes awhile for the latex to set) and Beverly brought the wine. Tonight we welcomed Kelly to our group with some wound painting and experimenting with molds. The latex is taking some playing with to get the edges smoothed when applying but we just worked on painting tonight so the ladies were able to get used to working with makeup.

Luckily with wounds its hard to mess up so badly that a little more blending and fake blood can't make it look good. Beverly did some online research and found that wine is definitely needed when looking at photos of blisters. Seriously, its not to be done before dinner. So we ended up with a nice selection of wounds to add to our zombie repertoire:

In the midst of painting Beverly asked about making a bite wound and I decided it would be a good time to try out some of my new supplies. I cut off a slab of my modeling clay and went ahead and sunk my teeth in for some indentations.

Then I used this awesome stuff called Fantastic Plastic to make a mold.

You put these little plastic beads in a bowl of hot water for a short time until they turn clear and using some tongs you pull out the glob and its ready to mold.

So I mashed it into the clay teeth impressions and let it cool and harden, about 5 minutes or so. When I pulled it out it actually turned out a lot better than I thought it would. I slathered on some liquid latex and we'll see if we get some decent bite wounds when it dries.

Elf ears for Megan was next on the list so I took a glob of clay and got an impression of the top of her ear. I used the plastic to fill it and once it cooled I took some more clay and started sculpting ears. Its a lot harder than I thought it would be as I tried to get an organic look to them so here's the work in progress:

It's a start, I'll make a mold of it and get the liquid latex out again to see how it looks. Playing and experimenting is what tonight was all about, you can't learn without making mistakes and sometimes those mistakes can turn into something better. And so we sally forth...

-Kristin