The day we were influenced by Barbara Hepworth part 1

One or two of the group had said they fancied trying sculpture of some kind. While looking at the Step Up material provided by Outside In, I had seen a Barbara Hepworth pack. I looked at this and modified slightly the ideas of using plaster to carve into as the people at our group would find proper carving difficult.

We collected plastic trays, the sort from supermarkets that have fruit and meat in them of different depths and sizes. We then used Plasticine to make shapes on the inside of the trays. Some used cardboard tubes to make large holes through the sculpture, others just put long sausages of Plasticine to make holes.

We then mixed plaster of paris and filled the trays. It took around 20 minutes for the plaster to set enough to take the trays away. Some needed cutting away and others just peeled off. We then removed all the tubes and Plasticine to leave our sculptures.

This is just step one. We are going to leave them a while to fully set then work into them more and smooth off the rough edges but that's for another time!