Break out of the mold

Teardrop Camper Mold - Clare Urquhart

Mold Making

Well I finally finished my mold making sessions in the studio and now I have 4 x three-piece molds for miniature caravans, an alphabet press mold, 2 sea creature/shell molds and a few different banksia molds.

The banksia was a little bit challenging, due to the nature of using the natural object to make the mold from, but I hope it will look awesome when I pour a few banksias from them!

The teacup, however, was a bust and I have to redo it - lesson learned, do not play with plaster before it has hardened properly!

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soft soaping during the mold making process

Mixing pouring Slip

I found an old bucket of porcelain slip that I had in the shed which I thought I could use to start my pour process - wrong!
It had been stored for about two years (possibly longer...?) so I think I can safely assume that it is a little too old to use - darn!

I was hoping not to have to mix up more pouring slip, but I think I am going to have to. Alternatively I could just buy some pre-mixed slip which would quicken my process and get me started much more faster - so I might even go down this road to get me started off  and then mix up a batch later... we'll see...

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Studio Process

Hopefully this week I will get a chance to pour some of these little treasures and have a few images to show next week - Yay!
As I said in an earlier post, this is the process I enjoy the most, pouring the objects and seeing all the little duplicates emerge from their molds, fun, fun, fun.

Sunday Ceramics
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Until next week, keep creating....

 

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