Arrowmont Day 2 - July 16th, 2007

Monday was a long and busy day at Arrowmont. Kerry began the day with an explanation of mold making techniques. Each student carved a small image to make positive and negative molds from. We started with a little chunk of Sculpey each, carved it and made a negative mold with Alginate (dental mold compound).

Here are pictures of our talented group at work:
















After the molds were made, the students mixed up hydrocal/silica casting compound and poured negative and positive plaster molds. Here are pictures of the molds loaded with frit and billet. (Anyone have pictures of the fired projects? I somehow missed that.)
This was our morning project, the evening/afternoon was spent preparing cast images for our large projects. There will be a brief pause here while I figure out how to create a YouTube account, there are several good video's coming up and I don't want anyone to miss anything.