Making Plaster Books

I am making small plaster books

Mostly because it is fun

But also to use up some of my stuff

and there is the possibility of a pop up 

in the near future

I have a dwindling collection

of what I call matt board

It is wastage from a framers

I have had it more than 15 years

I cut it into ~10 x 10cm squares

and join them with strips of cloth

glued with rabbit skin glue

These are then wrapped 

in plaster bandage

 

and then I gesso

with rabbitskin glue and whiting gesso

several times

for a beautiful finish

but still with a little texture

and then it occurred to me

what if I just skipped the plaster step

and just glued

an open weave cotton fabric

to the matt board?

and then gessoed that

We shall see

and next I shall paint

and maybe add some found words

x te