Post #684115 by Jürka on Sun, Jun 30, 2013 4:01 PM

The problem was that in the clay there were many bulges. I really don't know if these were air bubbles or pieces of clay which didn't mix with water... Anyway... Yesterday's slip-cast had too thick walls, some bad holes (due to air bubbles) and those bulges... I tried to open it, no problem, but when I tried to take the clay-man out of the mold, well, the bottom part was too soft and everything was f*cked up... It wasn't good anyway... I could wait, but I wanted to make the new one... So, heck with it...

So... Today I made a new slip-cast... This time I did 1,2 litres of water and 1 kg of clay-powder. It got a lot of mixing, very carefully and very long... So, no notmixed clay-pieces any more... I tried to kill all the air bubbles and everything was fine, but after pouring I saw some tiny holes (I guess air bubbles) in the walls... I killed some of them, but then some new ones came up... So... F*ck! I hope there's no bubbles inside the clay and I hope there's no bubbles in the front... Maybe the glaze will fill them and nothing will be seen. The walls are not perfectly straight, but... still looks good (except those tiny bubbles)... This clay-guy got much better every way, but I'm little bit afraid that I glued some little pieces back to the mold and I did it just few hours before slip-casting and I'm afraid those pieces will be stuck to clay-guy... But... That's not too big problem... I will glue them back and then I'm gonna use super-attack...

Tomorrow I will not open the mold, I will wait at least 3 days... It's too wet and soft...

I'm thinking about that difficult-word formsil thing... What exactly it gives? "...to keep the particles of clay evenly suspended and dispersed in the water." I understand that it helps to mix clay with water?

Anyway... What else did I do today? I round-shaped Kanaloa's woodpiece and also woodpiece for skull's shotmug... I would start drawing Kanaloa right now, but I'm dead tired and I've lost the drawing of my idea (which dog tore off from my notebook, but it's still there... somewhere...), so... not today... But this will be very soon when I'm starting carving again...