Ceramics at Home for Beginners

Overview

“In this lesson you will see how easy it is to make your own plaster casts. In this case, we will make a small bowl, but you can make them of several different measures, they will last for years if you keep them well cared for, and so you can make pieces of many sizes and use them as you like.”

In this video lesson Paula Casella Biase addresses the topic: Making a plaster cast, 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

“Making a Plaster Cast Hi. In this lesson, you'll learn how to create your plaster cast for our mushroom bowl. We'll be using, like we mentioned on our materials class, dry plaster powder. Dish soap or hand soap to be used as a demolding agent and a bowl filled with water. I filled this with the capacity of this small bowl we'll be using for the mold. I added the same amount of water. You'll actually use a bit less because we'll be adding the dry plaster power and we'll have way too much. We'll do it like this just in case. Just so you know, this might happen to you. And it's okay. So the on...”

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Course summary for: Ceramics at Home for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
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• 82638 students
• 5 units
• 21 lessons (3h 51m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Fine Arts