This class focuses on educating participants who wish to understand the casting process rather than those who already practice it professionally. The Resin-Rubber Overview course serves as an introduction for aspiring craftspeople new to casting who want to develop foundational knowledge about available material options and their practical applications. This curriculum addresses the specific needs of artists beginning their casting journey and exploration.
Achieving successful casting outcomes requires developing thorough familiarity with the wide variety of materials available for the process. Increasing your knowledge about material properties, characteristics, and behaviors significantly enhances the quality of your finished casts. Additionally, understanding various casting methodologies and recognizing when and how to apply each technique proves essential to successful project completion.
This course focuses on examining and clarifying the characteristics of diverse casting materials, including gypsum, polyurethane, polyester, epoxy, and silicone compounds, exploring their individual properties, limitations, behavioral characteristics, and respective advantages alongside disadvantages. Additional subjects covered throughout the course encompass the purpose and application of release agents in the casting process, techniques for producing bonded metal castings, and multiple finishing methods available for completed cast pieces to achieve desired aesthetic and functional results.
