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The Mold-Making Manual, Kaplan
Item#: BK511
ISBN: 978-1-57498-398-2
Book Description:
Plaster mold making offers unlimited ways to extend and expand a ceramic artist’s vision.
Make Your Own Ceramic Molds
In The Mold-Making Manual: The Art of Models, Molds, and Slip-Cast Ceramics, Jonathan Kaplan draws on his 55+ years of experience to provide a methodology for problem solving in ceramics, using plaster not only as a design tool, but also as a way to generate forms for reproduction.
Included in this book:
•A thorough introduction to plaster, as well as essential guidance for setting up a plaster workspace
•Step-by-step projects, accompanied by full-color photos and detailed diagrams, on multiple ways to make models and molds
•Methodologies and advice from industry specialists to help studio potters become more efficient at making and using ceramic molds
•Comprehensive overviews of casting slip and rheology, as well as troubleshooting tips to help you solve slip-casting problems
•Artist profiles with beautiful, full-color photos of some of the best slip-cast work in the field
•And much more!
This detailed and comprehensive compendium on mold making and slip casting will enable and empower the ceramic artist to think in different ways about making objects and expand their creativity.
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