Some notes on doing sculpture in plaster.

1. Do not attempt to make a clay out of the plaster. Use it the way it was intended. Chunky, heavy lunks of plaster crack, and the cracks are deep structural fissures.

2. If you have violated rule one, do not attempt to patch it up by then using plaster properly. It won't work. It will just make the sculpture too bulky, and with structural issues.

3. When you have finally seen the error of number one and two, and realize that you need to start over, you will have a large, fairly heavy piece of cracked, unfinished, sculpture. Resist the temptation to keep it in order to use it in something else. Throw it away. Throw it away. Throw it away.

4. When you have violated all three of the first three laws, don't come running to me when your shirt catches the base of the sculpture, pulling it off the worktable, nearly smashing your foot and making a big mess.

5. Do what I say. Not as I do, and don't ask me how I figured these rules out.