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Man of the Future: Step 9

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Hello again and thank you for joining me for this Artist’s Studio.

The next step after coating the clay sculpture with rubber mold compound, is to encase the rubber in a shell of plaster to hold its shape after the clay sculpture is removed from the inside. Hemp (yes, hemp) is dipped in plaster and laid directly on the rubber mold to create the shell or “mother mold”, which will remove by splitting like a clamshell.

Man of the Future

The division line is marked by those big round tabs around the outside of the piece- they are where bolts will go through to hold the empty mold halves back together when pouring wax into them (I think the mold makes kind of an interesting sculpture in itself at this point). After the plaster cures hard, the mold is split open and the rubber is peeled off the sculpture in sections which now fit into the plaster shell. All remnants of clay are cleaned out and the mold is reassembled in sections for our next step of casting wax copies.

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About Bryan Larsen ~

Bryan Larsen

"I was born on February 12, 1975, and have been drawing as long as I can remember. By the time I was in high school, I knew I wanted to be an artist, although at the time I didn't have a clear idea of how exactly I would use my talents to make a living.

"As I continued studying art, I began to suspect that fine visual art was dead. No one seemed interested in teaching students how to draw well, or paint well. More often than not, my own skills exceeded those of my instructors.

"The only field left that seemed to require good drawing, painting, and compositional skills was illustration, and therefore I began studying illustration at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. I became even more convinced that I had made the right decision in staying away from fine art as I endured course after course of required "drawing" and "painting" classes in which instructors required me to draw with "less focus", or use ridiculous materials such as shellac, glue, sand, salt, etc.

"My second year at Utah State, I met Damon Denys. In discussing Art with him I realized that there were other people who believed that technique and subject matter were indispensable components of any work of art. I then decided that I would work to develop my own painting skills with the purpose of creating artwork that I considered worthy of being called Fine Art.

"Since that time, I have studied on my own: Drawing from live models to learn the human form, studying proper painting techniques from any source I could find ample reason to trust, and developing a philosophy of Art based on reason, and life on earth.

"My goal is to portray the heroic and romantic in human nature and human achievement in a realistic style and a modern setting. I place particular emphasis on composition, technique, realistic detail, proper craftsmanship and consistency of style."