Working with Negative Space - Cheesecloth sculptures

Man with a Pipe

It’s been a while since I played around with cheesecloth sculptures following a course with Mary Pal from Canada. My husband is back in hospital so doing something like this that I can work at and then leave and come back to has been helpful. The cheesecloth is worked with diluted pva on a heavy plastic sheet , using a black and white image under the sheet to guide the structure. Once the forming is finished - only a little bit of cheesecloth is added at a time - the structure is left to cure (dry). It is then carefully lifted off the plastic sheet and stitched onto black felt (in this case). Working back to front with the darker pieces being the lighter pieces in the structure can be quite challenging.