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

2. Painting Must paint on a hard surface.

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

6. Stephen Antonson

7. floral is removed, plaster is poured

8. Pressing

9. 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.

10. 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.”

11. removing the clay bed

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

13. Pouring into store bought molds

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

15. Birds pressed into a clay bed.

16. Dipping.

18. Casting and Shaping 1. balloons

19. 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.

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

23. Maria Bartuszova, Provisional Forms

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

27. 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

28. 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.

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

30. Untitled Paperbacks
1997
Plaster and steel

31. Wrapping burlap, canvas, plaster wrap

32. Alberto Giacometti
Swiss sculptor, painter, printmaker

33. Half Length of a Man, 1965

36. 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.