Using Messy Stuff Like Plaster and Clay

These double portraits are positive/negative experiments in creation of a mold using clay. Students build a face-shaped sturdy base of clay and put walls of clay around it to hold the plaster that is poured in. Anything dug into the clay becomes what pops out of the plaster. Anything added to the clay becomes the indentations on the plaster cast. The student in the second example chose to make a cartoon out of her project.