This article will deal with the first method of direct modeling.
Plaster is one of the most common and accessible materials available for art.
There are many different grades of plaster, but for direct modeling ordinary building plaster will be suitable. You may however experiment with harder plasters that will be more expensive. Preparing your sculptural framework. You may simply pour plaster into a box, if you want a block of plaster to carve from. However, for our example we will use a method that is slightly more sophisticated.