Plaster carvings
I spent most of my weekend working on some plaster carvings for my design class. It was so much fun I made a new project out of it!
Mine looks like this so far (click to see the Flickr set):
The assignment was to make a relief carving based on a master painting, and I chose Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life. I love the movement of all those swirls! Once I clean it up a bit and varnish it, its going to look fabulous.
The second project I worked on was to cast a larger block of plaster and carve a freeform biomorphic shape in it. I haven't taken pictures of it yet, but it looks astoundingly similar to the Plaster Moon Rock Sculpture project in Todd Oldham's new Handmade Modern book. The book looks amazing!
Very cool. Very cool.