Don't get me wrong - I brought this on myself. Call it a self-initiated goal. Until this point, I didn't really have any idea what would work, if anything, and how well it would work. So I went to Hobby Lobby and loaded up with some plaster of Paris and modeling clay, just to play around.
I started with the plaster, hoping that its make-as-runny-as-you-like characteristics would be preferable over the viscous clay. Wrong. That plaster start out all nice and easy flowing (as seen below - looks like egg whites) but quickly turns rock solid. By quickly, I mean within a minute. That's pretty freakin fast, if you ask me.
After going through the entire tub of plaster only to be left with sub-par edges, I took a break and moved onto the clay. It took a while to warm it up to the point where I could screed it with the template and make some smooth curves, but once I hit that sweet spot, it was pretty easy sailing. The difference is noticeable.
I haven't written plaster off yet and still feel that it holds some great possibilities, if only I could better control the speed to which it dries (or just get quicker at applying it). Oh well. Lesson learned: Plaster is even more unruly than concrete.
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