Today We Made Eyes
Today was ocular day in the anaplastology lab with Bob! First we painted irises and pupils. Then we chose from a drawer full of template shapes and made a mold. Typically with a patient you would do this from an impression. You can actually use algenate right on the eyeball itself. After we made molds, we mixed up acrylic and put it all together. The iris I chose to use is currently curing in low heat water and pressure, but here was my second choice. I would have gone with this one, but I rushed the pupil at the end there, and went back to the previous one.
It’s actually kind of tricky painting a light brown eye. White tends to come up blue. And yellow often comes out green. So you have to play up the red and ochre. You actually use basic oil paints along with a liquid we just called monopoly. It’s technically acrylic but at a very strong monomer to polymer ratio.
I’m looking forward to seeing what comes out tomorrow!