It should not become too liquid, but still shapable. Mix it according to the instructions on the bag. If you want to go for a human figure or something else that's not very compact, you will need to strengthen your frame by adding more thick metal rods, particularly in the rather thin areas of your sculpture. Tie the ends together with some leftover wire. Furthermore you should insert some bent metal rods so it will withstand the weight of the mortar.įor the shell I only had to make a round ball for the base structure. The interior should be filled with newspaper and/or an old sleeping pad (so the mortar won't fall through the wire).

When you have decided for a shape, you first start by buliding the sculpture's wireframe -model out of chicken wire. Also, cement mortar is not the best material for precise and fragile works. an animal, something surreal or even a humanlike figure), you just have to consider that the less compact it gets the more complex and difficult it is to realize. You can choose nearly anything here (e.g. I'm pretty sure you'll get the cement mortar at any hardware store.įirst of all, you have to think about the sculpture's shape.

I chose it because it's a weatherproof material that's perfect for the garden and it is relatively easy to handle. The material I chose for the sculpture is cement mortar (I don't really know how you call it in the U.S., eventually you will rather know it as cement plaster or something else (?) I'm not sure on this).

Chicken wire and plaster sculpture