Mould-making went well. I had 3 main projects, my cloaked series, the muscle study, and finally my skull. You can see the original clay sculpture (fits in the palm of my hand) next to a brown wax test pour from the mould.

The most important thing I learned from this class was patience (Finally it happened!) there’s no point spending a few weeks on a sculpture and then destroying it because you rushed the mould by 1 hour. Lesson learned.

>>Ken story- no mould-making class is complete without ken telling a story. This time after he looked at my mould he commented it looked like a monkey head. (yeah.. imagine the skull with a few layers of rubber on it) I said, yeah that reminds me of the part in Indiana Jones when the eat the monkey. Ken laughs and then begins talking about a student’s rich father that used to partake in all the illegal, underground cuisine in Singapore. One such dish involved a table with a circle cut in the centre. A live monkey with the top of his skull removed was then placed so his head was sticking out of the hole. You then eat the monkeys brain while he’s alive. (ken didn’t look happy telling this story).
-Yes, I’m all for cultural differences, but,.. and yet,.. there are some places I will never travel too.

Ken is a very travelled person in both life and mould making / sculpture and it was great to get so much technical information out of him. Ken will always answer your question and if he can’t, he’ll go home and research it and have the answer for next week. I wish more instructors at OCAD were like him.