{"id":3592,"date":"2019-01-28T02:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T02:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2019-01-28T02:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T02:52:16","slug":"first-pressing-of-the-james-scoville-sullivanesque-terracotta-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/first-pressing-of-the-james-scoville-sullivanesque-terracotta-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"First pressing of the James Scoville “Sullivanesque” terracotta panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I pressed the first\u00a0 LS2 panel today,\u00a0 it took 60 pounds of clay,\u00a0 the sculpture will need to firm up a little and dry a little before I can finish cleaning up and refining the surface details.<\/p>\n

It takes about 2- 3 weeks of slow, careful drying of pressed clay sculptures of this size before they can be kiln fired.<\/p>\n

The firing process in an electric kiln takes approximately 36 hours and the high quality clay I use is fired to what is known as “Cone 1”- about 2,100 degrees F which vitrifies it nicely to become harder and less porous than standard hard bricks are.<\/p>\n

Once the sculpture was removed from the plaster mold as shown, I have to spend considerable time going over every milimeter of the surface to model-in any missing details, sharpen edges, eliminate any surface defects, mold seams etc.<\/p>\n

Each is a signed, numbered and dated work of art.<\/p>\n

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A timelapse video of the whole process is here;<\/p>\n