Making my Crucifix with mod-rock

Earlier today three of us went out and purchased the mod-rock we needed as the school didn't have any so we needed to get our own. We quickly popped in to town to buy it during break.

Using the mod-rock was actually quite simple, we had to cut the rolls into small strips, and quickly put them in water so they were covered in it. This way the cement like stuff on it would spread out and also stick it to the sculpture like cement. I covered my crucifix in the mod-rock until it was a few layers thick so you couldn't see the wire sticking out from underneath. Simple task it may have been it was quite messy and it covered our hands in white cement like stuff which was quite hard to get off.

I then left it to dry, meanwhile i wanted to print out the pictures i took with the film camera on the weekend. I just followed the normal procedure of putting everything together in the black bag and putting the film on the reel, i then put the different solutions in the container with the film in it to develop it ready to print out the pictures.

once I had completed this task i noticed that only 2 of my pictures had actually come out which was extremely disappointed as all the other pictures i took were a complete waste of time. I was going to print out both my pictures but one of them was too overexposed so there was no point in printing it out as you could barely even see it. However next time I'll be much more careful with this as i know what i did wrong now and ill do it better, I'm glad i did my test shoot with a film camera as it would have been a complete disaster if these were my final shoots and only one of the pictures ended up being use able.

My crucifix had now dried so i began painting it. I decided to paint it a dark purple colour, not for any reason in particular. I first wanted to paint it silver but there was no silver paint so i had to choose from another range of colours. The purple was quite dark so i thought it would be okay and wouldn't look too peculiar.

I think the end result of it turned out to be okay there were a few dents in it where the mod-rock had sunk into the metal mould. It wasn't completely even all over however i think it was quite good, it was quite a difficult and long procedure all together and took quite a long time.