Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Journal 4
Today was tedious because we had to portray what we wanted to appear on the plaster of Paris as a negative in the clary mould. Whatever we wanted to pop up on the plaster of Paris had to be dug out of the clay mould. So we had to utilise logical visualisation. And that was tedious. Firstly, we put clay into a plastic tupperware, making sure the surface of the clay was level. Next, we had to carve out the negative of the design we wanted to appear on the plaster of Paris. My design was based on a scene at an archaeologist excavation site. I wanted to show a set of dinosaur bones, and the