Edgar on thu 31 may 07
Hello everyone. Greeting from a frequent voyeur and newby poster.
I've been trying to locate an article (magazine or book???) that I recall
described an artist's method for creating plaster hump molds through
stretching plastic or other materials and then pouring into the center of
the plastic. This method created a very natural shape and could be easily
vary by changing the tension of the suspension.
Does anyone recall such an article or have experience with the ins and
outs of such a procedure?
Anne Doyle on mon 4 jun 07
Hi!
I tried responding to this question last week but the message wasn't going
through, so here it is a week late and a dollar nowhere in sight...
I have heard of a potter who clamps one of the very heavy duty garbage
bags by the short ends to shelves and thus the long part is over empty
space. She then pours her plaster into the center of the stretched out bag
and as it fills it makes a long thin oval shape ... she then lets it set
up to dry this way and smooths out the ridges later on the piece. She ends
up with a humpmold that has a very natural shape...she can play with the
tension and thus change the shapes she makes with this method somewhat but
i think its mostly for longer narrow shapes...
Good luck!
I hope this was helpful,
Anne,
in Saint-Sauveur where the baby robins are gone after much carfuffel with
a red squirrel last week, resulting in 2 attacks on the nest, and ending
in a rescue saturday at 6:45 am .... as for the red squirrel, (which now
everyone at our house agrees are rats with bushy tails!!) we then
discovered he had set up camp in our shed in the lawnmower bag and he was
unceremoniously made homeless yesterday... vicious little bugger he was,
and fearless!
MoKa on sun 10 jun 07
Hi Edgar
This was in an issue of Pottery Making Illustrated (my first of my
subscription which I just renewed, so possibly just about a year ago). I'm
on vacation at the moment, so I can't check my magazines for the issue
number or date, but I do very clearly remember the article and thought I
might try this myself sometime.
I'd be interested to hear of your success in locating the article and/or
your results from this moulding method.
Regards
Kath
From Glasgow, Scotland but currently enjoying the delights of Michigan, just
too late for the closing of the DIA but luckily just in time for the Detroit
Festival of the Arts where I bought more ceramic art than I ever brought
spending money for, and a few other pieces besides. Bang goes my baggage
allowance!
On 31/5/07 23:52, "Edgar" wrote:
> Hello everyone. Greeting from a frequent voyeur and newby poster.
>
> I've been trying to locate an article (magazine or book???) that I recall
> described an artist's method for creating plaster hump molds through
> stretching plastic or other materials and then pouring into the center of
> the plastic. This method created a very natural shape and could be easily
> vary by changing the tension of the suspension.
>
> Does anyone recall such an article or have experience with the ins and
> outs of such a procedure?
>
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