Plaster Craft Face Casting
Plaster Craft is an extremely versatile material and easy to use. It is a high strength gauze impregnated with plaster of paris that can be cut with scissors, wet with water and molded or modeled. To cast a face it takes about twenty minutes to apply strips and about ten minutes to dry before it can be released or pulled off. Students are usually a little squeamish about rubbing vaseline on their faces, so that the plaster can be easily pulled off, but they don't seem to care about the dripping plaster strips. They actually enjoy stretching out on classroom tables in anticipation for the plaster to dry. And it might be interesting to note how quiet the classroom is during this process!
Plaster Craft can be obtained from Arts and Crafts supply catalogs such as Nasco, Triarco, or Sax. Odering in bulk is always cheaper and the price for a twenty pound box is about forty dollars, plus shipping. One twenty pound box is approximately enough for sixty masks.
