Week Three – Spatial Sketches – plaster with fabric and cardboard.

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For week three my studio class has moved on from our spatial sketches and onto experimenting and making with plaster. first we played around with putting plaster into fabric, and secondly we were left to decide what else we could use, I used cardboard to relate it to our spatial sketches from last week.

here is the first piece I made with a pillow case and the plaster. I had no idea how it would turn out because this first one was an experiment so I was just playing around with the plaster. I had tied a knot onto the top part of the pillow case and placed it into a bucket and folded the edges over the sides so that I could pour the plaster in.

here is the second piece I made with plaster but instead of fabric I used my left over cardboard from last weeks spatial sketches. I cut the card into a circle and when pouring the plaster once it was very thick onto the card I folded it into a circle and held it there until it hardened. This work was interesting to me because of the way plaster can be manipulated into shape and form. It being made this way shows how delicate it can be and how the plaster takes the cards every detail,

here is the third piece I made with cardboard as well. for this one it was originally one whole big one going all the way up but the plaster was too fragile and the top half too heavy so it snapped off. By making this I did something similar to the last one but instead folded a bigger card in half and instead taped it so it went right around. when pouring the plaster i waited for it to get to a thicker consistency so that it wouldn’t drip too much off the sides and was easier to manipulate so that I could smooth it into the corners and make sure it was even.

This is the second half of the top one that broke off. Here you can see that the plaster was staring to harden very quickly when I was pouring it in and started to turn lumpy and start to build up instead of spreading out like how I was hoping.

here I made another cardboard piece but bigger and instead of folding it completely I folded it half way like I did with the first cardboard piece.

here is the same piece but the back of it.

From the cardboard sculpture sketches, my class and I moved on from doing small works to doing an bigger and more developed piece, working with mood and metal or anything else we could use to create what we envisioned.

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