Floral Casting

Learn a refined approach to creating botanical casts that are both art and artifact.

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Course overview

In this course, Gabriel Franklin teaches the quiet ritual of floral casting—where a plant walk becomes a portal, and petals become permanence. This is a course in form, feeling, and honoring the natural world. A slow art and a study in texture and time.

Lessons in the course

Rolling out the Clay Slab
Creating a Uniform Base
Plant Walk and Foraging Hike
Botanical Design
Pressing the Botanicals into the Clay
Removing the Botanicals
Preparing the Clay Vessel for Pouring
Mixing the Plaster
Pouring the Plaster
De-Molding and Final Touches

Gabriel Franklin

Hailing from Bucks County, PA, Gabe is more than just a plasterer—he’s a true artist at heart. As the founder of The Art of Plaster, he creates custom home finishes. Gabe enjoys still life painting and drawing as a personal creative outlet, finding inspiration in the natural world and the materials he works with daily. His love for texture and form led him to floral casting, a passion project that naturally evolved into commissioned art.

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