Plaster work

Here is some of my plaster work that i have been doing, the idea is still that i want the fabric to run into other materials however i have not found the right material. 

This photo is of 3 different fabrics i used. non of them ran but all made different impression in the plaster and different shapes. I do rather like the smaller plaster works as they are cute and remind me of flowers. 

This is the one that has worked the best. The plaster has taken some of the colour from the material and the texture, I also love the contrast between the textured sides and the plane white side which is just plane plaster. You can also see that the plaster have left a mark on the fabric which i find interesting and it has done so on most of the other samples i have done.

Each piece makes different shapes.

I then thought about how i could present them... could i hang they up? so i have started to take off the fabric from this plaster but left it and i do think that it looks rather nice hung like this so maybe i could do it with some others?

It then came to try to present them for our first mini exhibition and i was struggling as i wasnt sure how to present them. Just have 1 on its own looks too spaced out so i tried using different fabric underneath it that didnt seem to work. But i thought that too many of these mini sculptures where to much i couldnt find a middle.

In the end i made some more little sculpture to hang and with different fabric and this is how i presented it.

Experiment 2

Today i have tried to redo the same experiment as the other week but i have decided to dye my own fabric and not set the dye permanently so it has a better chance of running into the buns. And it has worked! What i am going to take from this is that it might be better to dye my own fabric different/multi colours if i want a specific effect when using different mediums.

Experiment

Today i have tried out the recipes minus a few ingredients as i wasn't going to try eat these afterwards. I have made cookies and buns here's the images

As you can see the cookies haven't gone to plan as the colour hasnt run from the fabrics. However i do like how the fabric has formed different shapes in the cookies and as i cut them with scissors the fabric appeared.

The buns didn't work well either as the fabric didn't run but again i do like how the fabric has formed different shapes.

Experimentation project

For my project i have decided to explore the relationship between fabric and other materials for example plaster.
My first hurdle was when i realized that i couldn't not do this without a plaster induction therefore i needed to try and book one as soon as possible, this however isn't cant be done before the project has to be handed  in so i need to look at other materials that are closer to home.
FLOUR? maybe i could make doe and see how the materials act with it?

I would need to research into the fabrics that shouldn't be heated up and that will burn easily as if i was to put them into the oven they would set the fire alarm off and i don't think people in my halls would appreciate that.

I want to see if the any of the fabrics would bleed out into any of the other materials i put them with as in a previous project i used plaster and it pulled out the colour of the fabric which i wasn't expecting.

Recipes:
For buns,
110g/4oz butter or margarine, softened at room temperature.
110g/4oz caster sugar.
2 free-range eggs, lightly beaten.
1 tsp vanilla extract.
110g/4oz self-raising flour
1-2 tbsp milk.

For biscuits,

250g butter, softened
140g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tsp vanilla extract
300g plain flour

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This is a way of presenting your work, I have used it to show the artists I like and some previous work which I enjoyed doing. The presentation lasted just over 2 minutes and I briefly spoke about each slide. It has helped me decide what I want to do for my project. Ill be focusing on fabric and all the different materials I can combine fabric with.