Thursday 27 September 2012

Making Twitr_janus' skull

Twitr_janus skull
This was fun. The face is hot glue from a silicon-latex mould.
The cranium is papier mache over a carved polystyrene block.
Here are the design sketches...
Twitr_janus' cranium designs

To get started, a face mask was lined up....

Carving Twitr_janus' cranium

to compare with the pencil designs...

Carving Twitr_janus' cranium
. the design was drawn onto the block...
Carving Twitr_janus' cranium

Then some roughing out with the carving-knife ...

Carving Twitr_janus' cranium
As the shape developed, masking tape was used to hold the mask to the polystyrene block

Carving Twitr_janus' cranium

The block was carved away until...
Twitr_janus' cranium

The actual mask is a hot glue variation from the same mould that the latex mask was made from. This was lined up with the papier mache cranium.
Twitr_janus skull
and glued on by melding the hot glue to the papier mache
Twitr_janus skull

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