Final Project: Plaster

From my experiments I learned that plaster is good for molding, painting, and securely holding objects. The design for this project actually came from a previous ideation of mine last year. It is an ashtray which takes its form from the classic chalk outlines of bodies at crime scenes. Lung shaped vessels are recessed into the form, where the ash would go. I will make an illustrator file of the outline of the figure, print it out and mount it on a sheet of mdf or plywood. Then cut the form out and route the edges of one side to finish the mold to vaccuum form in styrene. After forming the recesses and gluing them into the mold Ill pour plaster to create the piece. Once the plaster has cured I need to remove it from the mold and begin applying primer and paint. The body form will be white and the vessels will be either red, black, or white. Below is a quick rendering of the design.