Creating a crescent

Here I worked on creating the style of a moon (rough close up, seemingly smooth far away) on a singular piece. I created it by using the same technique of sand moulding but doing it on a much larger scale than in trays. I covered a round section of a table with sand and adding the same texture as before. I adding bigger lumps and dints in the sand as this one was much bigger and I wanted the craters to stand out even more. I created the smooth moon part by leaving a section of the table in the middle of the sand clear, simple. I then covered the sand in casting plaster and to strengthen it covered that in scrim so the piece is made up of plaster and scrim. As it is rather thin and strengthened by the scrim I think it would be good to experiment further and try hanging the piece in the air, creating the moon even more obviously. 

From a far it seems rather plain. 

Close up you can see the texture and it is much more defined than my smaller piece that I created. It was also much harder to brush the sand out of these craters and most could not be removed. I do however thing this is a rather interesting addition because the sculpture can be seen as interactive and the sand is rough to touch and so a viewer could have the chance to touch and feel perhaps what the moon would even feel like. 

I like the crescent moon addition that I added, again it feels really great to touch after you have just felt the roughness of the craters as its a complete opposite being smooth and silky.