Picture of Poring the plaster
I mixed the plaster with water (I added a bit of white pigment just so the final look was cleaner). Don’t overmix—it’s like pancake batter: smooth-ish but still alive. Then I poured it into the chip can and shoved the branch right in the middle. Real high-stakes move because if that thing tipped over while it set... well, it didn’t. Crisis averted.
