Ceramics at Home for Beginners

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you what you need to make a plaster cast, and the importance of choosing the bowl well to make that mold. You can use it to make clay pieces with cooking and also with the air-dried clay.”

In this video lesson Paula Casella Biase addresses the topic: What you need to make molds, which is part of the Domestika online course: Ceramics at Home for Beginners. Learn modeling and enameling techniques to create decorative pieces.

Partial transcription of the video

“What you Need to Make Molds Hi. In this section, we'll go over the materials and tools we need to make a plaster mold. At the very end, I'll tell you the best molds you can use. First, let me tell you what we need. We'll be using these bowls you're seeing here as a mold. The bowl containing the plaster batch needs to be a lot bigger to fit the water-plaster mix. So the amount of water will be pretty much the same as the capacity of the bowl we're using. You can find plaster in a hardware store, but it's better if you buy it in a drugstore or in a pottery store. You'll get a fine-grained pow...”

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Course summary for: Ceramics at Home for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 84196 students
• 5 units
• 21 lessons (3h 51m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Fine Arts