How to Make Clay Molds & Clay Dies

Video Transcript

" I am Chitropola Mukherjee from India on behalf of Expert Village. I want to tell you about how a model is taken. After a statue or any piece of work, any piece of sculpture that has been finished. After it has settled down, you know you put water and keep it and make it settle down. And after that you take first, take a mold. A mold is taken by first making a separator. You make the separator with clay. The separator is made with clay and it's like a thick band. Whatever is the thickness of the mold, you take that much of clay and you make it into a band. And you put it right through the whole sculpture so that it is divided equally into half. Because you have to take the mold out, later on. So you must have a separator. If you have the whole thing in the mold, then you can't take it out. So that is why the separator is needed. So after the separator is fixed and cuts the whole piece in two, you make little holes in the separator for the locking which we will show you later. And after that has been done, you take some plaster of Paris. And you use a brush. Liquid plaster of Paris, use a brush and see that the brush fills up whatever places that have to fill up. If there's anything that is not really quite perfect so that it has become smooth. After you have done that with the liquid, the you take the plaster of Paris in a moldable form like dough. And you slowly slowly, entire thing to the required thickness you put it on both sides. After that it dries, then take out the separator. To take out the separator so you have two halves which is in plaster of Paris and it is let to dry. And when it is dried you have to unclip the two, unlock the two and take out the two pieces. Once you have done that, then you are safe and your sculpture is also quite safe. Thank You."