It was about a week before my friend Rosco's birthday and I told him to "sit down and stay still, I'm making a plaster mask of your face." So he did, he let me put Vaseline on his face and put a plaster cast on his face, trusting friend! I didn't tell him why I was doing this. He had a shoelace in his room with about 20 different seasons passes from all the different mountains around the world that he had either worked at or had a pass to. I took it, got all of them copied in colour and cut them out. I pasted all the copies of his seasons passes on the plaster mask as well as a few magazine picture of snowboarding scenes. This was his birthday present. He LOVED it! It's kind of weird looking but it's really cool.
Plaster is a great tool for art, although quite messy! I think to use plaster successfully in the classroom it would be for intermediate grades only!
that is soooo awesome!!
ReplyDeleteHow original! And what a great surprise...to have an art work created especially for and about you and the things you love. Great for you to have the experience of working with this material yourself before considering how it might be used in the classroom, too.
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