students taking a selfie on the beach

Plaster Casting @ Seal Beach Pier

15 February 2018

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We had an optional Plaster Casting meetup at the Seal Beach Pier between 3 & 6pm on February 14th, Valentine’s Day, 2018. Here are a few snaps of the activities:

student digging a hole in the sand at the Seal Beach Pier — Digging a hole

student working with sand at the Seal Beach Pier — Preparing a mold

students on the beach at the Seal Beach Pier discussing their plaster casting projects — Coordinating with classmates

students helping each other make sand molds of their hands — Packing wet sand around a classmate’s hand

student mixing plaster and water in a bucket — Mixing plaster

students mixing plaster and water in a bucket — … still mixing plaster…

Student running toward the ocean with a container raised high in the air — We need more water!

Student at the shoreline trying to dodge an incoming wave — I got wet!

Wide shot of many students on the beach at the Seal Beach Pier working on plaster casting projects — Everybody’s busy!

student carrying plastic folding chairs to the beach — I brought chairs!

student carrying a box of Krispy Kreme donuts to the beach — I brought donuts! Happy Valentine’s Day!

student offering another student a donut from a box — Mmm… donuts!

student posing for the camera — Posing!

student doing cartwheels on the sand at the Seal Beach Pier — Doing acrobatic tricks while waiting for plaster to set

students sitting on the sand at Seal Beach — chillaxin’

a heart drawn in the sand at the Seal Beach Pier — Happy Valentine’s Day!

students standing on the beach — FaceTime

a student knocking another student over at the beach — Wrestling

students digging plaster castings out of the sand at the Seal Beach Pier in Seal Beach, California — OK, it’s been 30 minutes… let’s excavate our castings!

students carving sand away from their casting — Removing sand from around the plaster casting

students examining a half-excavated plaster casting — Did we break it???

Digging a plaster casting of a hand out of the sand at Seal Beach

student cleaning a plaster casting at Seal Beach — Cleaning loose sand off a plaster casting of a hand (yay, it worked!)

student holding her hand up against a plaster casting of her hand to compare size and detail — Comparing my real hand to my plaster hand

student holding a large boulder-shaped piece of plaster up in the air — I made a rock!

student holding a plaster casting of his hand and photographing it with his cell phone — Photographing my work

students taking a selfie on the beach — Selfie time!

students taking a selfie on the beach — Selfie time!

students taking a selfie on the beach — Selfie time!

students sitting on the beach and enjoying a large bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos — We did it! (Flaming hot Cheetos time)

student photographing her partner holding his plaster casting — Oh yeah!

Students posing in front of the sunset at the Seal Beach Pier in Seal Beach, California — We came. We cast. We conquered.

student arranging a half dozen plaster castings in the sand — Setting up our pieces for a photo shoot

a snake made of plaster and seaweed slithers around a plaster cast boulder — Plaster Snake slithering around Plaster Boulder

Plaster Casting

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