I've been trying to remember the whole process. I'm missing one piece. For the rest: artists' canvas was wet and something like PAM cooking spray was sprayed on one side (that's the part I don't exactly remember). This was placed over an existing piece of whatever you are trying to recreate. This was then coated with the plaster of paris and held in place with thin sheets of wood. a 'dead man' and 2x4 held it all on the ceiling until it dried. That created the mold. Smaller projects were done by applying plaster to the wall and covering with the artists' canvas and lightly sanding when dried.
I remember being told that whole ceilings could be resurfaced with canvas sheets but I never saw it done. We did use it to repair plaster and lathe walls rather than taking the plaster down and replacing with drywall. We even used old cotton bed sheets.It kept the wall from crumbling.
I think that's all of it. I'm not sure about what got sprayed/brushed on the inside of the canvas, though.
Clarissa
slurryguy <slurryguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'd be interested in learning more myself. I'd also be especially
interested in insights about using papercrete for decorative
achitectural details. It seems to me that a non-artistic schmoe like
me might be able to steal some of azglassblaster's technques used to
create a mold of an alpaca. I might be able to create fancy crown
moldings and other detail work.
Some of those old plastering techniques are almost a lost art. While
I'm sure not every technique would work with papercrete, I bet a lot
of those old-school ideas could be adapted.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups. , "Nancy Bracewell" <Cather39@..com .>
wrote:
>
> I've held this for awhile, wondering whether to answer you
privately. Is it
> proper to carry on a conversation about this on the list or would
it be
> considered a bother?
>
> I am VERY interested in what I can learn about historic
restoration – canvas
> and plaster of paris included!
>
>
>
> Nancy
>
>
>
> The decline in our standard of living may not be a sign of economic
failure;
> rather, it may be part of the cure for our economic ills. --Paul
Hawken in
> The Next Economy
>
> - - - - -
>
> Re: Clarissa, Rodeo, NM, and horses
>
> Posted by: "cloud wall" windwalkerwill@... windwalkerwill
>
> Date: Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:56 am ((PDT))
>
>
>
> Hi Nancy,
>
> <snip>
>
> I did a lot of historic restoration work in the eighties and might
have a
> few answers for your bullseyes and plastered ceilings. An ancient
artisan
> taught me how to work with wet canvas and plaster of paris.... and
it got
> past the preservationists....
>
><snip>
Clarissa
"He who holds, must first have discovered.
He who has discovered, must first have sought..."
~tale of y Chadee
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