A slip-cast bauble – part 1
The first blog I wrote for ClayCraft was back in issue 9, and it came about like this: someone at my college clay class made the art-deco-looking teapot from a ClayCraft template, and my mind was blown by how you could make something so professional-looking out of slabs of clay. I immediately subscribed to the magazine and, being the overconfident bull in a china shop that I am, decided to make a large plaster mould from the instructions in issue 5 as my first project.
It did not go smoothly. I failed to have enough buckets, enough plaster, enough newspaper for clean-up (I am the only, so I wouldn’t change a thing.
