Earth plaster, or clay plaster is one of the most useful and satisfying skills you can learn. When you've understood how each material in the plaster works, you'll be able to:
- Plaster a mud home naturally
- Create beautiful earth sculptures
- Make simple earth/cob sculptures like ovens, alcoves and shelves.
- Use mud as mortar
- Render a stone wall
- Create earth plaster mosaics
- and more...
PRICE: 110 Euro (full payment required to reserve a space).
Date: 14th -16th October 2016
Location: Olympos Valley, Turkey.
Price includes:
- 2 nights at Sheriff guest house in the beautiful Olympos valley.
- Breakfast and evening meal for two nights.
- Three days earth plaster course (starts at 1:00 on Friday 14th and finishes at 17:00 on Sunday 16th).
What will you learn?
- How to test your dirt.
- How to mix earth/clay plaster for every climate.
- Where to find clay.
- What each ingredient in the plaster does.
- How to add the various layers when rendering an earthbag house, stone wall or straw bale home.
- How to repair and maintain the plaster.
- Techniques for sculpting the plaster into...well anything!
- How (and when) to use mud as mortar.
- How to make earth plaster mosaics and other pretty stuff.
Cost: 110 Euro (full payment required to reserve a space).
Date: 14th -16th October 2016
Location: Olympos Valley, Turkey.
There are limited places (12) so reserve a space to avoid disappointment.
Date: 14th -16th October 2016
Location: Olympos Valley, Turkey.
There are limited places (12) so reserve a space to avoid disappointment.