So I was quite confused about this. How do you have a drawing, but no paper to have the drawing on? by having a drawing in plaster or wax, and wire or string. To where in one direction, one can see the image, but in any other it looks like a mess or lines or voids. So over the week I made my first attempt of a drawing without paper in plaster. I have worked with plaster in the past, so I was fairly confident that I know how to make the molds of the plaster and they wouldn't leak and that I could make a smooth mix.
I made it at a 1/16th scale, and I was trying to make the roof plan, to see the different layers and the voids that would go all the way down to the ground floor. I used foam core board for the mold and it released fairly easily, not as nicely as I wanted, the wet plaster made the outside paper side of the foam board wet so in the end I had to dig it out, but it came out nicely. The edges had lines that showed how many layers I used so for the finial I might use foam insulation, but that might leave marks as well, so I'll have to try some things out.
Professor Carranza recommended that I make the voids actually voids and have them go all the way through the plaster mold, so for the final I think that I might do that. The pieces might come out of the mold easier that way.
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