Introduction to Creative Slip Casting and Mould Making
Start date: 23rd August 2010
Overview
Suitable for complete beginners upwards, this two-day course will introduce you to slip casting - a ceramic process whereby liquid clay slip is used to produce perfect copies from a plaster of Paris mould. This interesting process can become highly creative by using coloured casting slips and imaginative techniques.
Course Tutor
Tim Wright
Venue
Mould and Model Making Workshop, Sion Hill campus, Bath
Date
Monday 23 to Tuesday 24 August 2010
Course Time
9:30am to 4.30pm
Course Fee
£100 (max 10 persons)
You will be provided with all basic materials.
Please bring a notebook and pen, a small/medium-sized fruit or vegetable and an apron and/or old clothes. For health and safety reasons, no open-toed footwear may be worn.
You will need to bring your own lunch. Facilities for beverages will be available throughout the day.
Course Content
Day 1:
- Demonstration of mould, Part 1
- Producing mould, Part 1
- Demonstration mould, Part 2
- Producing mould, Part 2
- Demonstration – bungs
- Producing bungs (optional)
Day 2:
- Demonstration and practice – slip casting techniques
- Presentation of work of contemporary makers
- Further casting practice / finishing of moulds from Day 1
Learning Outcomes
- Produce your own multi–piece plaster mould of a fruit or vegetable
- Exploration of creative and imaginative slip casting and coloured slip techniques, using fruit and vegetable and stock moulds.
- Work produced may be left for firing and collected later – or taken away unfired
Booking
To book, telephone 01225 875533. Payment is due upon booking either by telephone credit card payments between 9.00am to 12.30pm Mondays to Fridays or by cheque.
Creative Slip Casting and Mould Making
