For this workshop we were asked to bring an object to cast, either glass, ceramic, metal o’r food surprisingly!
Vinamold is not very expensive and you can re-use it a couple of times, it also has a very low melting point, I think this is the perfect product if I would want to carry on with this process at home!
- Create a box for your object out of clay to hold the Vinamold, make sure there is no holes for it to escape
- I used a perfume bottle to cast which was quite big, because there was a lot of space left around it I pinched the clay so I wouldn’t have use as much Vinamold.
- Cut the Vinamold into sugar cube pieces and fill up a glass bowl, then put in the microwave on 2 minutes until it’s turned into liquid. Remember to use goggles and gloves for this as the bowl can get very hot.
- Carefully pour the Vinamold on top of your object (clearly you can see i didn’t do this very carefully!)
- It depends on the size of your object how long it’ll take to cool, because mine was so big I left it for a couple of hours but smaller object could take around 40 minutes.
- Take the clay off with your hands, this can be quite challenging if you’ve left it over night a it tends to crumble, use a scalpel to open the edge of the vinamold so you can take your piece out.
Because the lid of the bottle was plastic it melted so the cast is a bit disorientated but the bottom half was successful, I hope I will be able to use this soon, I think it would make great mini plant pots!
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