My three vases, I ended up making a second one so I could sand one of them to remove the imprint of the plastic layers and keep one of them with the lines.
The Definition and Renders
The Print
The Casting
I think the project overall has been a great success, I am really pleased with the results and that I decided to stick to a more geometric but not uniform shape. I am not sure yet if I like the sanded look but it definitely produces a very different effect, some of the lines ended up being offset because some facets needed more sanding than others, at first I tried to keep them even but then I just went with it to see what the result would be. It is so easy to sand the clay, I thought it would take way more time!
I had some challenges in the beginning with creating the definition and especially with trying to get the definition I had created to produce an object without any over hangs that would damage the mold. I ended up choosing one that was somewhat symmetrical and then had to rebuild a number of the surfaces in Rhino. I was worried about the print failing because the base is small but it worked almost perfectly, the bottom of the print is a bit rounded and uneven, not totally sure why but maybe it began to tilt a bit during printing. During the mold making process things went fairly smoothly except like a goof I forgot to include the mold release on the first pour, thankfully I remembered on the second! But the print came out of the mold fine without the release.
The slip casting went pretty well also. The third cast I did had some unusually thin spots and even though I left it for longer than the first two casts it took longer to dry even though the mold had been left unused for a week...not sure what that is about but I can always make another one if it fails! 😄
If I were to redo this project I think I would try to alter the definition at the start so that I wouldn't have to play around with the overhanging facets and I would maybe have tried to make the base wider, but not too much I like the slightly unbalanced look of it. I might try in the future to push that unbalanced element and see what happens.
So that's it! It has been a really interesting and challenging project and I got to work with plaster and slip casting for the first time!
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