Plaster cast art

In between all the usual lock down stuff like gardening, housework and competitive backgammon with the hubs I have discovered a new obsession - casting plants in plaster! Sitting here on my desk are my first attempts - it's been a steep learning curve but hopefully I've learned from most of the numerous mistakes I made! I'll start with my favourite (and most successful so far!) The brambles are from my front garden and I think they look quite beautiful here although in the garden they…

Making a Beautiful Impression Rachel Dein's method of plaster casting captures flowers and foliage in a unique and delicate way. She creates her original casts by making an impression in wet clay and then pouring plaster directly over it. The clay captures the most intricate details, subtly accent

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Herculite plaster cast, alginate mould.

Katy Eccles - Botanical Casting Artist on Instagram: "Absolutely delighted to see my Oval Botanical Miniature piece featured in @homes_antiques today 🙌🏻 My mum inspired my interest in botanical casting but I have been interested in plaster casts since studying 18th English century art and architecture in my Art History degree. I loved learning about the Grand Tour and the practice of preserving relics of antiquity in plaster during this period. The Soane Museum in London has always been…

I once took a sculpture class where they had us working with plaster strips and to test them out I made a plaster cast of my hand. My niece and nephew love that plaster cast so I thought we could h…

Katy Eccles - Botanical Casting Artist on Instagram: "The first look….one of the aspects I love the most about my work, and maybe find stressful in equal measure, is the moment you peel back the clay to reveal how a carefully crafted botanical impression looks in the hardened plaster. Sometimes it’s better than you ever imagine and sometimes it’s just not quite what you hoped for….either way it’s all part of the process #create #creativeprocess #art #imprintcasts #reveal…

London-based artist Rachel Dein has spent the last few years perfecting the art of plaster casting, an admittedly straightforward process of pressing objects into clay and then filling the voids with combinations of plaster and concrete. However Dein’s time spent as a prop making apprentice for the English National Opera, The Globe Theatre, and The RoyalContinue reading "Fossils from Everyday Life: Plaster Cast Plant Tiles by Rachel Dein"

Last autumn I was awarded money from the Assistant Curator Training Fund to attend an ‘Introduction to Sculpture’ course at City Lit, an adult education college based in Covent Garden. I started as an Assistant...