Yesterday evening: plaster, this morning: cement! Last night I started the bas relief body for a cat, not necessarily for the cat mask I made recently… TBD. And I also started another human face/mask. These are still drying, and will need more layers, more shaping, etc.

The cement project is a concrete chair:  I started with a broken resin “adirondack” chair that Michael kindly reinforced with a little rebar, wire, and epoxy. Then I got to work with expanded metal lath (aka blood mesh). Today, I used a stiffish mortar mix to putty the chair legs, and up along parts of the body to hide the plastic and to make the legs stronger for the increased weight.The chair is under wraps for a few days to allow the mortar to cure before I move it around for the next steps. The plan is to use fabric soaked in high cement mortar stretched out on top of the chair seat & back, laying it over the expanded metal. I may need to put another smoother surface over this, and perhaps I will need to cut the fabric in two pieces to better avoid wrinkles! I will be experimenting a bit more before this step!

Anticipation …