Sculpting with Plaster painting pressing and casting dipping casting and shaping wrapping with burlap

Painting Must paint on a hard surface.

Stephen Antonson Classicly trained Brooklyn based artist Creates each piece by hand out of wood Paints each piece with plaster, sculpts, sands

Stephen Antonson

floral is removed, plaster is poured

Pressing

1. Once the objects are removed from the clay, pour plaster into the clay bed. Notice how the walls are holding the plaster inside. Wait until the plaster sets to remove the clay bed.

Rachel Dein London based artist “I enjoy the magic of plaster casting to create fossils from everyday life, whether it’s a shell found on holiday, your grandmother’s treasured lace, a Christening gown, or the flowers from your wedding.”

removing the clay bed

Or carve a design into the clay and then pour the plaster.

Pouring into store bought molds

Pressing into clay for a handmade mold. Pine cone Shell Toys finger

Birds pressed into a clay bed.

Dipping.

Casting and Shaping 1. balloons

Todd Robinson Sydney based artist His work embraces an uncanny realism and utilizes ambiguous and fictive materialities to engender tactile and visceral responses to the art object.

Use rope, clamps, and tape to help you shape the balloon.

Maria Bartuszova, Provisional Forms

Cast interiors Pepper Water bottle Aluminum can Cardboard Box Rubber glove Hollow soft plastic toys Aluminum exhaust duct Plastic ball

Rachel Whiteread Born 1963 English artist She casts ordinary domestic objects and their negative space Known for making solid casts of the open space in and around pieces of furniture such as tables and chairs, architectural details and even entire rooms and buildings. uses concrete, plaster, rubbers, First woman to get the Turner prize in 1993

House Large concrete cast of the interior of a Victorian house Earned her the Turner prize They draw attention to that which is absent as well as granting a presence to what is normally invisible or overlooked.

Untitled Basement 2001 They draw attention to that which is absent as well as granting a presence to what is normally invisible or overlooked.

Untitled Paperbacks 1997 Plaster and steel

Wrapping burlap, canvas, plaster wrap

Alberto Giacometti 1901- 1966 Swiss sculptor, painter, printmaker

Half Length of a Man, 1965

George Segal American Sculptor, 1924-2000 Using orthopedic bandages dipped in plaster, New york sculptor George Segal constructed some of the most haunting and memorable figurative art of the twentieth century. Life sized models based on his body and those of friends, family, and neighbors are seated at lunch counters, poised on street corners, or waiting in train stations.