{"id":1847,"date":"2013-07-29T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2013-07-29T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:55:19","slug":"terracotta-cherub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/terracotta-cherub\/","title":{"rendered":"Terracotta cherub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first hand-pressed terracotta cherub, made exactly the same way they made the architectural pieces for building facades in the 1890s has been removed from the mold.\u00a0The experiment on this is a success, although I need to change a couple of things in the mold making process because there were some issues with the mold making compound I used that caused a very rough pitted surface, that roughness has transferred to the terracotta but that is an easily solved issue.<\/p>\n<p>The cherub is made from Continental course red clay with grog.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it was done in the old days, hand pressing the clay into plaster molds as these workers are shown doing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pressing-clay-in-molds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1848 aligncenter\" alt=\"pressing clay in molds\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/pressing-clay-in-molds-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cherub295pressed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1849 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cherub295pressed.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first hand-pressed terracotta cherub, made exactly the same way they made the architectural pieces for building facades in the 1890s has been removed from the mold.\u00a0The experiment on this is a success, although I need to change a couple of things in the mold making process because there were some issues with the mold making compound I used that caused a very rough pitted surface, that roughness has transferred to the terracotta but that is an easily solved issue. The cherub is made from Continental course red clay with grog. Here&#8217;s how it was done in the old days, hand pressing the clay into plaster molds as these workers are shown doing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}