Plaster painting name crack#

The second painting I did is with light modeling paste. It seems the thicker I put in on the better it was-the thinner applications didn’t seem to have as much support.

Plaster painting name crack#

I am concerned that the plaster will crack eventually on the canvas.

It is great in that it dries quickly but you have to work fast and in only small sections.

I do agree with everyone when they say plaster isn’t the best to use. Attached in a painting in which I used it-but I haven’t painted it yet. They do have a hobby and craft plaster of paris-but I have only used the regular one. You can get this in the craft section at Wal-Mart or even at the hardware store. I took a look at her paintings and it appears she may be using plaster of paris. I usually hang out in the drawing or portrait section but have recently discovered mixed media painting and love it. The textures built up beforehand all to often seem to me to be nothing but a texture for the sake of texture… or worse yet… they may actually conflict with the image in a distracting manner. To me, the rich impastos of an oil painting record the artist’s working process and tend to convey a sort of internal logic related to the overall image. Personally… as an aside… I’ve never been thrilled with the sort of thick texture applied prior to painting. Even on wood panel and at this small scale the plaster is very fragile and could easily be damaged were the piece to be dropped. As Rose Queen suggested I would be very wary of using plaster on canvas. The individual pieces of wood (as well as the frame) were surfaced with plaster and then treated with a variety of paint, encaustic, shellac as well as sanding and rebuilding up. I might note that my own recent work employs the use of plaster: He constructed his paintings on wood panels which were surfaced with a shallow layer of plaster. I went to art school with an artist of Italian decent who was greatly inspired by the look of old Italian frescoes. in lieu of plaster for the texture.Įither that… or I’d utilize the plaster on a well-cradled (to avoid expansion/contraction) panel. I would think it would be better to use one of the many gel mediums, modeling paste, etc. Personally, I would be reluctant to use plaster on a canvas because canvas flexes and plaster doesn’t.