Slipcasting

Catalog description

Covers the ceramic forming technique called slipcasting. A mold is needed in order to cast anything in clay. The mold is made from an original object, a prototype, which is made by the artist. Students make plaster drain cast molds from original objects. These molds graduate from two up to five part molds; part molds fit together like a puzzle and have a drain hole to both admit and drain casting slip. This course is roughly half moldmaking and the second half is all slipcasting.