Natural Clay Plaster

This is natural clay plaster over compressed earth block, I left a small amount of block showing through. This brown coat is a mixture of 1 part straw, 1 part clay, 2 parts sand. It is easily applied with a mud trowel and then smoothed with a wood float, however it is very labor intensive but a lot of fun... You can cover it with a natural clay plaster color coat, clay paint or leave it raw.