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While I was waiting for a delivery of plaster of Paris, I researched homemade alternatives. A number of sources recommended a simple mixture of flour and water for a similar result. I mixed up a paste, adding some Brusho for colour. To create interesting shape and texture I poured the paste into an ice cube […]
Metal parts and jewellery are frequently cast using ‘green sand’. Following some research I found various sources that suggested this could be achieved with kinetic sand. Kinetic sand is regular fine sand blended with a synthetic product, polydimethylsiloxane. This makes it behave like wet sand that can be moulded and shaped more readily than regular […]
Relief paste was also something I experimented with in Assignment Two where I used it with a stamp and bubble wrap to create very successful impressions. I mixed relief paste with Brusho for colour, keeping the colours marbleised by not over-blending. I spread the paste thickly over a heavily textured glass vase. The remaining paste […]
I had enjoyed using moulding paste in Assignment Two and I thought it would be interesting to work with to created moulded surfaces. I tried 3 samples: On synthetic fabric, with lace and using a stamp onto bondaweb. The paste was coloured with Brusho. None of the samples was particularly interesting. The paste wasn’t firm […]
After the PVA and fabric sample I had some colour PVA left over. It seemed a shame to waste it so I used some of the scraps of hand-dyed yarn from the weavette pieces and pushed them into the beaker until the yarn was covered. I allowed the piece to dry completely in the beaker […]
For this sample I used an old plastic bowl which I covered in clingfilm to assist with removing the finished moulding. After cutting strips of waste lace fabric from an old curtain I applied the fabric to the mould using dilute PVA. To make the piece more interesting, I added Brusho to the PVA, varying […]
For this exercise I organised a range of materials to make impressions on/embed in air-drying clay. The clay is natural grey and does not obviously lend itself to colouration (possibly painting post-drying?). For the first samples I therefore selected remnants of a rough cotton rug warp in a natural stone colour to harmonise with the […]
