Modelling clay

[Desforges]

Here are a few pieces that I worked on.
Would love to have more space.

 

[Enyaw]

Multi talented. Did you bake them or whatever you do to clay?

 

[snoball]

Excellent clay work!

 

[Desforges]

Multi talented. Did you bake them or whatever you do to clay?

No. I destroyed them, except for a larger one . I had made a plaster mould from it and casted a plaster piece from the mold. I have a photo on a slide . It also burned in a fire with other turned pieces. I am not lucky with fires.

 

[Enyaw]

You are still in Que, right. I have nothing to fear? Fire

 

[joe1It]

they are wonderful

 

[Artyczar]

Amazing work Jos. You keep surprising me. Sorry about the fire. What were their sizes?

 

[Desforges]

You are still in Que, right. I have nothing to fear? Fire

It was never my house. The big one was my parents’s house. I had a space in the attic . What I regret the most is my 60’s clothes. Swede pants and shirts all hand beaded, my Hendrix posters
Also ceramics and some paintings. A few wax sculptures.

The other was some friend’s appartement.
Personally, I am good with fires.

 

[Desforges]

Amazing work Jos. You keep surprising me. Sorry about the fire. What were their sizes?

The Angélus was a 3x4,
The ceramics were all sizes. Many things…
Life is that way, you win some , you lose too.

 

[Enyaw]

It was never my house

that's what I'm worried about

 

[Desforges]

that's what I'm worried about

I was nowhere around.

 

[Terri]

Wow! These are/were beautiful. I'm sorry they've been lost.

 

[AES]

No. I destroyed them, except for a larger one . I had made a plaster mould from it and casted a plaster piece from the mold. I have a photo on a slide . It also burned in a fire with other turned pieces. I am not lucky with fires.

You made a plaster mold from unfired clay? How did it not melt?

 

[Hermes2020]

You made a plaster mold from unfired clay? How did it not melt?

That is certainly possible: I have done that many times. It is also possible to used wet clay moulds with rapid set concrete, something I have done a lot recently. Something else on my list of experiments to do is to try concrete with gelatine moulds. I will report here on the results.

 

[Desforges]

You made a plaster mold from unfired clay? How did it not melt?

Something like this.

 

[AES]

Something like this.

Oh cool!
Now, in the first half of the vid, I'm like "hey sweet, I didn't know you could use plaster like that" but the last half was so destructive! Just one slip of that chisel and....