plaster head

plaster bead, plaster head, plaster staff

A metal angle bead that is a built-in edging, reinforcing a plaster angle; a corner bead.

plaster head

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Barnicot came down this morning he was astonished to find that his house had been burgled during the night, but that nothing had been taken save the plaster head from the hall.

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Titled 100 Muses, 2015, these pictures show naked women of all shapes standing against a white wall with the plaster head in stark contrast to their soft bodies.

Dragana Jurisic: Rawson Projects

But, in recent years, the huge model had disintegrated and all that was left of him was his plaster head, hands and boots.

You'd better not shout, you'd better not cry ... FAMOUS BLACKLERS' SANTA COMES TO TOWN

A plaster head "This is of my late mother-in-law, aged nine, sculpted by a family friend, Alexander Proudfoot, when he was staying in Kirkcudbright in 1924."

MY FAVE THINGS; christine points out marvellous features

One portrait machine consisted of a pantograph (a device pioneered in the 17th century) which used a gel pen to sketch the outline of a plaster head.

In a London bunker, robo-art comes to life

I liked Saranjit Birdi's Interrogation, in which unseen hands play a rhythmic tattoo with drumsticks on a classical plaster head which gradually disintegrates under the impact.

Culture: Scattergun approach reaps limited rewards; Terry Grimley reviews the second instalment in a series of biennial exhibitions of West Midlands art Visual arts

A white plaster head, the kind you find in traditional art schools for drawing practice, sits on the mantel, looking down at the girl waiting in ambush.

Two paintings neatly capture mundane suburban life

They used the molds to make a plaster head and hands for the figure.

Coming to life: a museum artist creates scenes so lifelike that they might be mistaken for the real thing

Using the molds, they made a plaster head and hands for the figure.

Coming to life: museum artists create dioramas so lifelike that they might he mistaken for the real thing

"We had to make a full plaster head cast of Emma Thompson," he says.

NANNY McMEE; Our Katie gets the Hollywood treatment

He himself reclined on the brass bed with one arm resting on a plaster head copied from Praxiteles.

The beloved's bright wings

Nadelman regularized the features of the head from the angular and expressive work of 1908 (like his raffish plaster Head, recorded in a photo, since destroyed) down to the smoothed-out haircuts, braids, and barrettes of 1910 to 1913 (the many Classical Heads of c.