{"id":438,"date":"2015-06-03T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2019-07-21T17:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T22:29:33","slug":"balloon-bowls-with-the-new-papier-mache-clay-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Making Balloon Bowls with the New Papier Mach\u00e9 Clay Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Balloons for papier mach\u00e9 clay balloon bowls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Balloons can be used as a wonderful mold for making papier mach\u00e9 clay bowls. Their full, rounded contours, variety of sizes and shapes and their elasticity offer a wide range of possibilities for some gorgeous finished pieces.<\/p>\n

While they do present a couple of challenges that need to be worked around, they let you make forms that you can’t otherwise get with a solid, inflexible object… especially one you’d rather not destroy trying to get the finished bowl off of it.<\/p>\n

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Why Make a Balloon Bowl?<\/h3>\n

There are probably more than enough objects lying around the house that could be used as forms for molding a bowl. They’re useful for most of the shapes you might want to make.<\/p>\n

\"undercut\"One type of shape that can’t really be created with an ordinary mold is one that has undercuts. This means that it flares out and then curves back toward the center again after the widest point.<\/p>\n

If you do, you wouldn’t be able to get the bowl off of the mold after it was dry, without breaking the object you formed it on.<\/p>\n

Shaping it over a balloon lets you make a bowl that does have an undercut. You can control the size, and to some extent, the shape while you’re building it. Because you can break the balloon when you’re done with it, an undercut isn’t an issue.<\/p>\n

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