Week 3

This week has been pretty productive but not as productive as it could have been. I have been working on a 3 part mold of a 2-liter bottle and ran into a complication. I made the bottom part of the mold twice, and both times I got air bubbles in the plaster. I think that they were getting stuck under neath of the bottom of the bottle because I was trying to do the mold on its side. So with a little innovation and a lot of heavy stuff I had to come up with a way to set up the mold so that the air bubbles would not get trapped underneath the bottle. As the pictures show it was quite a task to make the mold this way, but i just couldn't live with a mold that was not smooth and bubble free. This process was very time consuming, but in the process I learned a lot about what i need to do the next time to hopefully only have to do each step of the process once.
Friday I went to school and worked on casting bottles and cups, as well as making the third part of my 2-liter mold for the third time. Third time is the charm :).... I hope. I also loaded a bisque kiln with my cups, bottles and thrown cylinders, as well as whatever else was on the shelves to be loaded.

Week 2

Geez... All of these snow days are really getting pretty annoying when it comes to getting some work done in the studio. But besides all of this snowy excitement I have finished my 20 cylinders and have made 6 new bottles and about 13 styrofoam cups to add to the collection of white trash that is piling up around my studio. I have quite a few molds other pieces of trash in the works to make molds of including a 2-liter, which would be a 3 part mold, a to go box, egg carton, milk jug... I am also going to try to make "paper" from slip and if it doesn't work I may buy some Karaflex, which has the look of paper. I don't have any photos yet because i seem to not be able to remember my camera but I will add them as soon as I can.

We Meet Again

So here we are, back at the beginning of another semester with high hopes and lots of ideas. Over the break I made a few bottles and cups to continue with my idea of white trash. I will continue to make many more of these and also add lots of different pieces of trash to what will eventually be a massive amount of "white trash".

I have also been throwing some cylinders this week for the new throwing projects that we have been assigned. I am very excited about these assignments because they give us a chance to not only work on our own projects but it also gives us a chance to let go of those ideas and work on things that are less stressing. Without these throwing assignments it seems to be hard to find the time to sit down and throw, so I am happy to have this time built into our schedules.

That's all for this week!