{"id":2781,"date":"2017-03-25T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2017-03-25T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:07:53","slug":"converting-a-model-to-pressed-clay-terracotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/converting-a-model-to-pressed-clay-terracotta\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Converting&#8221; a model to pressed clay terracotta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started on the positive mold of my beaver sculpture by bringing the negative mold up from the basement and applying the release agent to it, after I have dinner I&#8217;ll be applying the rubber compound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/converting-a-model-to-pressed-clay-terracotta\/screen-shot-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2782\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"641\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mold in progress, and just after the 2nd application of rubber started to gel I poured the warm plaster in for the support shell. The heat from the setting plaster will help cure the rubber faster too. To-morrow I can take the negative mold apart and peel that rubber off the new and I&#8217;ll have a rubber positive with this plaster support inside it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/converting-a-model-to-pressed-clay-terracotta\/wp-content\/uploads\/22\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2783\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/converting-a-model-to-pressed-clay-terracotta\/wp-content\/uploads\/33\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2784\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>After filling the cavity with plaster for support<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/converting-a-model-to-pressed-clay-terracotta\/wp-content\/uploads\/44\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2785\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">And here&#8217;s the rubber positive to use for making the plaster piece-mold to press terracotta in.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started on the positive mold of my beaver sculpture by bringing the negative mold up from the basement and applying the release agent to it, after I have dinner I&#8217;ll be applying the rubber compound. The mold in progress, and just after the 2nd application of rubber started to gel I poured the warm plaster in for the support shell. The heat from the setting plaster will help cure the rubber faster too. To-morrow I can take the negative mold apart and peel that rubber off the new and I&#8217;ll have a rubber positive with this plaster support inside it. After filling the cavity with plaster for support And here&#8217;s the rubber positive to use for making the plaster piece-mold to press terracotta in. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}