Using a Condom to Create a Plaster Donut Bowl

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This video shows you how to use a condom filled with plaster draped over a gel flex half sphere to create a blank from which you can create a plaster mould to slipcast a bowl of the same shape. This was just a bit of fun and further experiments in using a condom filled with plaster to produce a shape from which to progress to a slip cast.
The idea to use a condom filled with plaster came from my initial experiments to produce my end of 2nd year show collection - Three Condom Sculptures.
If you are wondering what I mean by 'My Three Condom Sculptures'....Here is an explanation if you have time to read it!....
For my collection for my end of 2nd year show (I was studying a ceramics degree - I graduated in July 2024) I wanted to produce a set of three interlocking shapes in glass and ceramic representing my three children, hugging as a family.
In order to produce the three interlocking but separate shapes I needed to firstly sculpt the shapes but then create a mould of each shape so that I could recreate each using the slip casting method for clay and the kiln cast glass method.
I tried handbuilding the shapes out of clay but this didn’t work very well and then one day I tried a new idea - filling a condom with plaster and manipulating the plaster to create each shape.
I used a condom because once filled, I could manipulate the shape of the plaster inside until it set resulting in my desired shape.
I also used a condom because in order to achieve a smooth surface on the cast glass or ceramic/clay it is imperative that the insides of the mould are smooth and therefore the surface of the blank must be smooth! The inside of a condom is silky smooth so it seemed an ideal choice.
Also because I was intending on producing a set of three interlocking shapes I could create the left hand shape and then the right hand shape independently of each other and then let the third condom filled with plaster fall and shape itself between the two so that it moulded around each of the other two to create a perfect fit.
You can see my initial experiment with the method on my channel, firstly at this link • How to Make a Cast Gla... entitled 'How to Make a Cast Glass Candlestick using a Condom Part 1' and then in 3 subsequent videos - Parts 2, 3 and 4. I also summarised all the process in a compilation video too.
Hilariously enough the ‘part 1’ video actually went viral - 8.6million views to date (August 2024) and almost 10,000 likes! I think perhaps the best comment was ‘does she have an only grans account?’ Obviously it was a bit of a cheeky video although I never intended it to be that way!
Once I was confident I could work with the process I went on to employ this method to produce my collection of cast glass and cast ceramic pieces entitled at first 'Pack of 3' but then finally 'Something for the Weekend Sir?'. I have documented a lot of the process here on my channel and provided links where I can.

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