Lily Krakowski on tue 26 nov 02
A long time ago someone suggested, I think in CM, that one should mix those
styrofoam chips used for packaging, with white glue, and then use the mix to
line boxes for shipping. Plastic wrapping was used to protect the pots, and
the mix had to be allowed to dry.
I adapted that idea to making supports for drying free form and other molded
stuff. Plastic bags packed with chips work well to support work in
progress, but cloth (absorbent) sacks filled with mix above and allowed to
dry are wonderful. Make a FEMALE mold of what you need to support, i.e.
take the pot made on a hump mold and INVERT it, place your bag of chips and
glue in it, and allow to dry. You now have a hump "mold" over which you can
drape your drying pots as you take them off the plaster/bisque hump mold.
As now is the gifts-by-mail season and we all have more chips than we can
use....
Lili Krakowski
P.O. Box #1
Constableville, N.Y.
(315) 942-5916/ 397-2389
Be of good courage....
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