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RE: Paper casting over clay?


From: Sears, Ellen (ESears.us)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 04:37:48 PST


For an auction item, I had a third grade class press sea shells into a large
thick clay slab - I fired it and then we did a paper cast - I probably
sprayed it with Pam to get into all of the small areas -

> Is there some trick to keeping the layer(s) of paper (pulp? strips?) even
> over the clay? Should the clay be allowed to dry, first, before applying
> the
> paper? And then would you use Vaseline over the clay to prevent the paper
> from sticking? Would this (Vaseline, Pam, etc.) make the clay unusable
> afterwards?
>
>



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