Body Casting: A Rake's Progress

In this class a few of us made plaster body casts of each other in different poses, all based on the eight paintings in A Rakes Progress. The pose i adopted was from the eighth painting (Bedlam) where Tom Rakewell lays in only a sheet, insane and in the comfort of Sarah Young. the first body cast below is the one of myself, in the painting my character is to the right behind Sarah, sat cowering with his hands clutched beneath his chin (shown in the first image below).

 I enjoyed being cast and also casting others. I will definitely say i was glad when i was free to move again though, it reached a point where my hands and legs were aching to move and stretch as i was sat in that same position for a while, i was aching everywhere. Also after the majority of the plaster had set it became harder to breath because i wasn't breathing heavily, i was taking small breaths and when i needed to take a big breath and expand my lungs i wasn't able to without damaging the cast, so that became quite a pain nearer to the end because whilst not wanting to break the cast i also felt rather claustrophobic. Although being uncomfortable and restrained i would still definitely do it again because i really loved the final outcome after i was free and it was set.