I made 3 videos today, all time-lapse. Removing the mold; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kM76pxapco Cleaning up the architectural pressed clay terracotta grotesque sculpture; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W_GAQQHbms Pressing a terracotta architectural owl panel sculpture; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCtUqqZB-tY

Last week I fired these 3 sculptures that were dry enough, they all came out fine, the slight bit of yellow tint is some artifact in the photo under LED lighting, these are brick red and there’s no yellowish tint on them. I think I will press another 294 keystone, another owl, and another 285 grotesque this weekend and then I’ll have enough for a couple of full kiln loads in about 3 weeks.

The first pressed owl is done, it took 30# of clay