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Visitor Q & A

Customer Creativity
LifeCast™ Kit Examples:

Unfortunately the letter which accompanied these two photographs was lost and I have no idea who the artist is. Who ever you are you do good work! The one on the left is probably straight out of the mold and I would love to see how it finished up.
Notice how every individual hair strand is captured. It is crucial to have the hair thoroughly wetted or oiled to present a single surface to the mold. Otherwise, when released the entangled hair will tear up the mold.
Cust life cast face1What an interesting design, especially the freshly bitten apple included as a holding object.
I believe, from the looks of it that he used the same partial portrait approach that I describe in the following example (below).
This is just about the easiest way to capture someone's face with a LifeCast™ kit. I used a plastic, refrigerator type food dish about 4 inches deep for a matrix.
After wetting my hair thoroughly I laid half my face into the mold. That allowed me to keep one corner of my mouth near the surface for ocassional gulps of air as the ArtFORM™ began to set up.
Cust life cast face 2Note: My eyes were closed and must be when doing a LifeMask™.
The model however, should maintain an expression as if they were open so its relatively easy to carve them that way on the final piece.
My daughter has these pretty little feet which I just had to try to copy once I saw the BODY PARTS kit in the store. After she and I talked about it we decided to have them overlap a little (actually she saw this pose on a postcard or something).
The can was too small for this but, reading the instructions showed how to make it a little bigger. Since I never did this before I was nervous since I didn't want to screw up. I fixed it up with duct tape as you suggested and made sure it would hold water.
She had to sit down while we did it and there were no problems making the mold. But I blew and blew with the straw and still couldn't get even one foot out! She was getting impatient being stuck in there and I remembered the part about cutting the mold.
Cust life cast feetI got a butter knife and cut behind the heels like the picture said. Now they came right out! We poured the cement, let it dry and eagerly took it apart. You should have seen the big smile on her face.
We sprayed it with some craft paint that looks like real stone and I mounted it to this rock with a masonry anchor. Thanks for such a great kit. – William (CO)
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