{"id":1412,"date":"2023-11-27T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:53:19","slug":"making-a-positive-cattle-horn-for-the-plaster-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"Making a positive cattle horn for the plaster mold"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After making a few maquettes and researching how to make a cone, I went with this method.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Acquiring a real horn gave me a new sense of scale, and for want of a better word, heft,  that they have as an object and I wanted to relay this in the ceramic pieces.<\/span><\/div>\n

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So my final horn size is much larger than I first thought.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Using gum paper, masking tape, gaffa and cardboard I slowly built a straight point version of the horn form, layer by layer, until I felt happy with it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Here’s an image of it with my lovely “reference horn”.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I dried it thoroughly with the help of a hair dryer and then covered it with plastic parcel tape.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This creates a waterproof layer so that the shape stays intact while being sat in the wet plaster mix. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Next I need to build a container using boards and clamps, large enough for me to stand this upright inside the middle. I can then pour plaster around it, which when it’s dry and Ice removed this object, will become the negative mold that i use for slip casting. <\/span><\/div>\n
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After making a few maquettes and researching how to make a cone, I went with this method. Acquiring a real horn gave me a new sense of scale, and for want of a better word, heft,  that they have as an object and I wanted to relay this in the ceramic pieces. So my final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}