Ingeborg Foco on tue 25 jul 00
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From: Ingeborg Foco
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Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: plaster casting story
> Kelly,
>
> I had a similar experience with doing a plaster mask. However, I had
> already done three previously one with the plaster strips and two with
> poured plaster. So, I figured I all the little problems ironed out. Ha!
> They were done on my son and husband. Both of them have no facial hair,
> however, I still had a lot of trouble even though I really gooped them up
> with vasoline. They both lost a lot of eye lashes and some hair from the
> hairline. I did end up with two really great masks of both of them with
> really wonderful detail of eyebrows and eyelashes and I raku fired them
and
> have them hanging on my living room fireplace. They add a lot and are a
> great conversation piece.
>
> A very good friend of mine admired them and I said I would like to mark
his
> 40th birthday with doing a mask of him. He was really excited. He has
> facial hair!!!! He trimmed his beard in preparation and I told him to
goop
> up the beard really good. It was an unbelievably disastrous experience.
> The plaster ran into every space between his beard and each hair was stuck
> in the plaster. It was very scary because the mask wouldn't come off. I
> don't use straws and he could at least breathe thru his nose but I know it
> was an ordeal for him. It took forever to get the mask off with pliers,
> piece by painful piece. Needless to say, I didn't get a mold of his face.
> It was very painful for him and an awful experience for me. I know there
> are people who do masks with someone who has facial hair but I don't know
> the secret. I've been told the dental plaster does not stick to anything.
> Georgies in Portland, Or. sells it.
>
> A potter friend and I did a plaster cast of each other. I put so much
> vasoline on my eyebrows and lashes I did not think there would be a
problem.
> Ha--lost most of my eyelashes and eyebrows. Did get a great mask!
Somehow
> I must be missing something. Perhaps the plaster is too runny. There
seems
> to be a very short work time---too runny then quickly to thick to do
> anything.
>
> If anyone can add anything I am all ears as it is a really fun thing to do
> and nice to mark the passage of time in ones life.
>
> Ingeborg
>
> ifoco@teleport.com
>
>
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