Getting Plastered......

During the semester break I have been playing with foam and plaster.

 First I start with a piece of foam. This is the foam they have at the craft store for silk flowers.  It isn't the foam that you soak in water for fresh flowers.  I cut it into the form that I want.

 After it has been cut into the form I cover it all with plaster cloth.

 After the plaster cloth I cover it with plaster of paris.  I used a palette knife to get the texture in the photo below.

 I painted them with Raw Umber, Acra Gold, Yellow Oxide and Payne's Gray acrylic Liquitex paint.  Putting on a layer, wiping off, another layer, wiping off.  I have found that the blue shop cloths have been very useful for wiping the paint off.

 Jerry made me a bakers dozen polymere clay crows to sit inside the forms.

 And one to sit on top!  The one above is going to a very special person for his birthday!

 The piece below was created by using the spray foam that expands for the head.  I sprayed it onto the board and when dry carved it into the shape that I wanted.

 Added a beak using wire and the horns are made with newspaper.  Everything was then wrapped with plaster cloth and then plaster of paris.

 I used the same combination of paint on this piece as I did on the niches. I'm still sitting on this one for a name.......