Creating tiles from plaster molds

After blending rehydrated waste clay from the past years' classes with a concrete hand mixer, the plaster molds are filled and left to dry. The other materials used are colored drystone, which is a type of very hard plaster. This was done outdoors, which made cleanup easy with the use of a garden hose. It also allowed us to enjoy the warm weather after a long Montreal winter. The making of tiles consists of sculpting a tile, making a mold, and casting a replica. After seeing my mistakes on my earlier attempts I found out that this is trickier than it seems. ‘Mistakes are opportunities for learning’, says Joel, and when it became time for creating my own tile I kept those lessons in mind.