Project: Plastic casting in a flexible rubber mold

Our Costume Crafts Supervisor, Julia Powell, is an expert moldmaker and caster. During the regular season, she works in the Props shop of the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (Milwaukee, WI), where she has been called upon to cast any number of bizarre things--including entire sets of "human" bones!

Recently she demonstrated how to create a flexible rubber mold to cast ornamental pieces for armor and jewelry, and i photographed the process to share here.

( lots of images and process info )