Wednesday 4 August 2010

Creative Sculpture 2

Plaster, hessian, bone and rusty manhole cover:

Chloe Leaper teaching.

Plaster is a good material to learn basic sculpting skills. It is quick to set but soft enough to carve. We used clay as a moulding base and then poured plaster to create the mould. Clay can be imprinted with found objects (stones, peddles, sticks), pre-made objects (kitchen items, pre-made plaster casts) or simply with the hand. The plaster casts can then be worked on with carving tools, rifflers, knives and files or broken and re-joined using plaster as a glue.



Interesting to combine plaster and seaweed!

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