franzi working with plaster

the three weeks we were working with plaster were really hard for me...

first we had to draw sketches of an abstracted body part and later turn it into reality in the soft clay. that was hard i thought but it got worse..i .never worked with plaster before. the part of mixing the plaster and waiting for it to get hard was interesting, also that it got so warm while drying. but than we had to start carving it and turn it into the form we had drawn before! my bag full of dry plaster had a completely other shape than i would have needed one and it was harder to work with it than i thought! I would have loved to get some more help with choosing the tools and the carving. when i took the plaster home for th

e first time i didn't even dry up entirely so i couldn't work on it. the next week i took it home i sanded it and this was the first time i started to like the work on the raw plaster...it was nice to see that something smooth came out of the raw, wet plaster stuff! the next point were i would have loved to get some support was the moment i decided to hot-glue it on the wooden board. apparently i used to much but i never did it before so i didn`t knew how much glue i had to use...

all in all these weeks gave me some raff time and sometimes i wanted to give up on it but in the end i am happy with the outcome. 

this is a picture of the soft clay figure i made. i will attach the pictures of the painted plaster figure next week.

franzi koch