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.