http://organicarts.org Art & Natural Building Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:55:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently we gave Gina's cob hogan a new layer of plaster. We started off by poking at the existing earthen plaster; raking off the loose stuff. It was worn out, but what do you expect after 15 years? All around the base of the walls the earthen ... http://organicarts.org/ginas-hogan I do. I Love Cob! If you haven't checked out I Love Cob! - please do. It's my blog centered around the magical mixture of clay, sand and straw. There you will find a collection of photos, stories, drawings, video and tales about MUD. http://organicarts.org/i-love-cob This adobe wall suffered a water leak. I inspected the adobe bricks beneath and filled with an earthen plaster. Local materials were sourced for the plaster. Some of the mud came from a near by ditch and some came from the wall itself. In the end the ... http://organicarts.org/adobe-healing We've been focusing on the upstairs of the earthship, code named Raven's Loop. We went searching for local earth resources for brown coat plaster. Most of the available earth material is aggregate and large rock. We did find a spot that had small amounts of clay and was just ... http://organicarts.org/mud-can-wall I've been working on a earthen wall by my casita. The barbed wire is visually abrasive so I thought I'd remedy it with some cob. I've been collecting stones and old concrete for the stem wall. Next to source the mud... I had some adobes and left over mud ... http://organicarts.org/stem-wall