Plaster cast flowers

How to make botanical plaster cast tiles with flowers, art and craft therapy, mood boosting activities to find creativity

Katy Eccles - Botanical Casting Artist on Instagram: "Absolutely delighted to see my Oval Botanical Miniature piece featured in @homes_antiques today 🙌🏻 My mum inspired my interest in botanical casting but I have been interested in plaster casts since studying 18th English century art and architecture in my Art History degree. I loved learning about the Grand Tour and the practice of preserving relics of antiquity in plaster during this period. The Soane Museum in London has always been…

Katy Eccles - Botanical Casting Artist on Instagram: "The wonderful @wilderframe and I have added another workshop date as the first one sold out so quickly. So join us @restorationyard on Sunday 21st for a fun, creative floral day during which you will learn how to make one of my botanical plaster casts in the morning and get creative with some pressed flowers in the afternoon under Fi’s inspiring guidance. Check the link in my bio for tickets - hope to see you there #workshop…

I just pulled the plaster cast of hand-tinted flowers and fern from the clay mold. Now, I'll finish the edges and let the plaster dry before sealing it with an acrylic varnish that will help protect it from moisture and UV light. #plasterart #botanical #botanicalart #flowerart #homedecor #botanicalbasrelief #botanicalplastercast #flowercasting #plastercast #walldecor #farmhousedecor #wildflowers #wallhanging #homedecor #wallart #art #hangingart #interiordesign #ceramics #oneofakind #plaster…

Explore this brief history of plasterwork's extraordinary ornamental imprint and sovereign rise to design royalty.

London-based artist Rachel Dein has spent the last few years perfecting the art of plaster casting, an admittedly straightforward process of pressing objects into clay and then filling the voids with combinations of plaster and concrete. However Dein’s time spent as a prop making apprentice for the English National Opera, The Globe Theatre, and The RoyalContinue reading "Fossils from Everyday Life: Plaster Cast Plant Tiles by Rachel Dein"

In between all the usual lock down stuff like gardening, housework and competitive backgammon with the hubs I have discovered a new obsession - casting plants in plaster! Sitting here on my desk are my first attempts - it's been a steep learning curve but hopefully I've learned from most of the numerous mistakes I made! I'll start with my favourite (and most successful so far!) The brambles are from my front garden and I think they look quite beautiful here although in the garden they…