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Plaster molds for latex masks & eye FX.
I love how photographing a negative mold gives you the illusion of a positive 3-D form.
I've been using Gray's school of Art plaster making facilities so as I don't have a lot of space in my workshop for plaster.
my favourite work is on the lathe. i turn plaster, it is messy yet creates precise and polished models.
My boss is full of really fascinating information. For example, did you know that they used arsenic to remove hair from horses for this style of plaster? Apparently this is a problem for people who do a lot of restoration work, and they can end up with elevated arsenic levels in their blood.
I'd seen these so many times on TV but to see it close up was, in some ways, disturbing. It wasn't a hman, yet it was. It's like the ghost of a human.
When the ash fell, it fell so quickly and deep that not just people, but buildings, up to three floors deep were buried in hours. However, as the ash was so hot, it incinerated any organic material it came into contact with in an instant. Hence the person wanished in a flash (literally) into a pile of ash, the ash from the eruption around them hardening and capturing their last moments. Into these cavities was poured plaster and when the ash was removed, the outline of the person, expressions and contortions, was left. Hence, it's not the person you're looking at, rather a ghost of their final moments.
Now you understand why it's so creepy!
The final coat of the interior plaster is finished in the studio. Terri will have to finish the flower relief.
The eldest and most revered church of the legendary 365 churches of Ohrid is Црква Света Софијас, the Church of Saint Sophia, Holy Wisdom. (I've mentioned that name generally gets attached the only grand old dames of the church.) The original edifice dated to sometime before the sixth century, but successive construction after the conversion of the Bulgarian Empire to Christians in in the tenth century under Tsar Samuil I. The incredible frescoes within were preserved because during Ottoman rule they were simply plastered over as an expediency rather than effaced, and today the plaster has been removed.
For all the archaeological wonders and glorious artwork within, I thought the most striking sight was that of the ornamental cherry tree in full bloom in the church yard, the delicate pink petals already beginning to blow away in the wind. I couldn't help but think of the White Tree of Numenor described in Tolkein's works, for this noble tree with branches seemingly straining for the heavens seemed somehow part of the holy site.
Sample created by Carla E. Reyes, certified Venetian Plaster applicator, Dundean Studios, NJ, using Texton plaster products 2007.
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A close up of a relief which I created which was, believe it or not, based on a landscape of Dartmoor.
Cast using plaster of corrugated cardboard
Created Autumn '10
Antikmuseet
Victor Albecks Vej 3
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Antikmuseets samling består af mere end 500 gipsafstøbninger og 4000 originalgenstande fra hele middelhavsområdet, dækkende en periode fra den tidlige bronzealder til romersk kejsertid.
The collections of the Antique Museum (maybe better named the Classical Museum) hold more than 500 plaster cast copies of classical sculptures and reliefs and 4000 original items from the Mediterranean area, covering the epoch from early bronze age to Roman imperial times.
"The Museum of Ancient Art" was founded by Professor P. J. Riis in 1949 as a study collection for the Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Aarhus. The core of the collection was 500 representative finds from the classical cultures of the Mediterranean countries, permanently loaned to the collection by the National Museum in Copenhagen. In addition a number of plaster casts of classical sculptures came from the former Aarhus Museum.
Coated plaster
The Thinker was originally conceived as part of The Gates of Hell, monumental bronze doors commissioned for a proposed Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. This was Rodin’s first major government commission. He planned an assembly of 180 figures inspired by Dante Alighieri’s poem Inferno. Ultimately, plans for the museum fell through and The Gates were never completed. However, it became the defining project of Rodin’s career, providing him with a storehouse of figures to rework, rearrange and repurpose.
In 1888, Rodin developed The Thinker as an independent work. Like most of his sculptures, it was originally modelled in clay, then cast in plaster. The resulting form could be copied, enlarged to monumental size, and transposed to bronze or marble.
Rodin never replicated the exact physical proportions of his models, and these differences became even more pronounced when the sculpture was enlarged. The Thinker’s foot was later presented as a work in its own right, mounted on a decorative plaster pedestal.
[Tate Modern]
Taken in the exhibition
The Making of Rodin
(May – November 2021)
Working at the turn of the 20th century, Auguste Rodin broke the rules of classical sculpture to create an image of the human body that mirrored the ruptures, complexities and uncertainties of the modern age.
This major exhibition is the first to focus on the importance of plaster in his work. Although Rodin is best known for his bronze and marble sculptures, he himself worked as a modeller, who captured movement, light and volume in pliable materials such as clay and plaster.
This presentation evokes the atmosphere of the artist’s studio. Plasters casts in all sizes show how he continually experimented with fragmentation, repetition and joining existing parts in unconventional ways. Some of his best-known works were influenced by this process, including The Burghers of Calais, which is represented here by the newly restored original plaster.
With the process of making at its heart, the exhibition also considers the complex dynamics of the workshop, as well as between the artist and his models and collaborators, including fellow sculptor Camille Claudel, the Japanese actress Ohta Hisa, and the German aristocrat Helene Von Nostitz.
[Tate Modern]
Two panels of the "Still-Hours" cycle which can be alternatively exhibited together as a diptych. An obvious theme is that of the Lord and Lady in religious iconography.
Student: Serafim Mendes
Event: PLASTER International Festival of Poster and Typography (Poland)
School: ESAD.CR
Countries: Portugal/Poland
Link: csw.torun.pl/activities/festivals/3.-plaster-internationa...
This wonderfully designed wine cellar is kept at a chilly 40 degrees. So a textured copper plaster and Tuscan vineyard fresco were added for visual warmth. Visit us at www.periwinkleskies.net
This is one of a series of photos I took on the way into work one morning - I wanted to build up my portfolio of 'Texture' images.
I've turned this particular shot upside down. The shadows now face up instead of down, which gives the illusion (to my eyes) that the exposed brick is sticking out of the wall rather than being recessed into it. I think it made the image a lot more interesting.