Casting project - part 2....

Within the casting project, we also had to have a jewellery outcome as with most of our projects (you'll see why I say most later). A number of different metal casting techniques were offered to us: plaster (as with ceramics), silicone and cuttlefish. I chose to work with silicone becuase of the 3D outcome and the detail you can gain when casting in this material. I cast old china doll's heads and had the idea of finding a way to attach them onto the cast ceramic bottles I had already made. Corks seemed to be the way forward. However, I also had to make a cuttlefish mould (smelly stuff that it is!) and so I made flat backed doll's heads to make necklaces out of.

(final pictures to come)