Make the grey more intense by adding more black gesso to the white gesso ... I didn’t want it rocking the piece around. Plaster of Paris sets faster, which places pressure to work faster.

Don’t build a plaster-of-paris Paris. Don’t ask a color-blind chintz merchant to design the costumes. Don’t let anybody say to Sophia Loren while she bats her glued-on lashes and swells her ...

A teenage girl had to have most of her fingers and thumbs amputated because of severe burns caused by mixing plaster of Paris by hand during an art class. The 16-year-old girl is said to have suffered ...