FINI!

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE MY THESIS PRESENTATION A SUCCESS! here are some pics taken with my crappy power shot, more professional photos to come soon!

Finishing up the Muku Chocolate Molds!

Taking the plaster replicas out of the mold, cleaning it then pouring in the chocolate

taking out the muku chocolate molds!!

The first couple rounds where imperfect and experimental, but then I started to perfect the recipe, timing, etc and am now cranking out awesome dudes! More finalized pics to come!!

BFA PRESENTATION INVITE

COME ONE COME ALL!

Muku Mold Making Process (for chocolates)!

Here is the 2nd to last step of the mold making process. Still waiting a bit for the tiny Muku molds to dry. When they are fully dry, I will pop them out then start pouring the chocolates! The white material that they are embedded in is FDA approved, so it's safe to put food / chocolate in! Yay!

Making Muku Molds for Chocolates (stage 2 of 3)!!

Here are the pics of stage 2 of the Muku Mold Making Process! These are the molds that are flat on the back side that I am using for the home made chocolates! (NOt to be confused with the 3-D resin figures that I am having made from Monstrehero).

I started by sculpting a Muku out of the wax + clay mixture (posted earlier), then made a mold of that and let it dry for 24 hours. After that I was able to pour 5 other Muku Owls out of Plaster.

I will be posting the final steps next! Yay!

Resin Muku Figures!!!

(Here is a pic of the Muku Sculpt that Sean Blay carved!)

(And here are the color tests! I chose the middle Amber color)

Monstrehero, is making my Muku Resin Toys!! Monstrehero is run by two local Portland artists, Sean Blay and Cliff Kirschner. (more posts of the progress to come, it is getting dangerously close to the deadline of my thesis presentation!)

Muku Molds for chocolates (stage 1 of 3)!!

I am working with local sculptor, Jim Ayala to make a Muku Mold! I have carved Muku out of a clay + wax material, then built a dam around Muku with the same material.

Then we poured the urethane mixture into it. Now it has to dry for 24 hours before we can make the plaster molds out of it. The goal is to have at least 6 of these so I can pour chocolate into them later! Yay for Muku chocolates!! Looks like apricot jam now, but not for long...