Apply firm but gentle pressure with the rolling pin, remove magazine and parchment straight away and check the indentations.
Place a piece of baking parchment on top of your clay tile and a glossy lifestyle magazine on top of that. Cut clay to the size of your desired tile, you will use these off cuts of clay to create a margin to hold the plaster later.Īrrange your flowers on the clay and position in in a pattern you are happy with using a variety of different shapes. Roll out a piece of clay insuring that it has a flat surface (this part is crucial, as I learnt to my cost when my first tile picked up surface texture I wasn’t expecting!). A sheet to protect the surface you’re working on.A rolling pin (I found my wooden kitchen one far more effective than stone craft rollers).A bowl to mix that you don’t use for other purposes.Flowers (see notes above for what works well).For foliage I found heather, mint and the dried leaves of astrantia work really well. The flowers that I think work well in what I categorise as densely detailed stems are chive flowers, lavender, Pennisetum grass and thistles (though you will spend a lot of time picking out debris from thistles with tweezers before you’re ready to cast). After having a few attempts at this I’m going to share progress of where I went wrong alongside what I found worked to hopefully guide you to avoid the mistakes I made! Really delicate flowers are tricky, conversely dried ones can get stuck in the clay and ruin the impression, on the whole I found that architectural and densely detailed ones do best.
PLASTER ART PROJECTS CAST TRIAL
There was a bit of trial and error with this one, it took 4 attempts til I had a tile I was happy with, and I still haven’t perfected it, but it’s certainly a craft I intend to carry on making, once I’ve foraged the exact pieces I want. So, when I saw this activity I knew I had to have a go.
PLASTER ART PROJECTS CAST FULL
I came across this craft a few weeks ago and think I may have actually gasped – incredible diy fossils full of botanical beauty! I first came across the idea via a defunct workshop link, then I found artist Rachel Deinwho’s beautiful and perfect work may have started this trend, a quick search on Pinterest found loads of people are doing it, why have I never come across this before?! You may have noticed, I’m more than slightly obsessed with the forms of nature and collect things to bring the outside in all the time.
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