Tuesday 25 December 2012

Making lightweight hands for a giant puppet

Some simple, but rather amusing 18 inch long hands!

Making hands for a pantomime giant

They started as packaging foam, glued together with hot glue...

Giant hand for Panto Giant

Add to this was some cardboard to form a palm...

Giant hand for Panto Giant

To which cling film was added for lightweight padding...

Giant hand for Panto Giant

Seen palm up...

Giant hand for Panto Giant

Here's a standard size hand for comparison...

Giant hand for Panto Giant

An outer skin is added with papier mache. This is tissue (wet strength) with latex as glue

Giant hand for Panto Giant

From the top...

Giant hand for Panto Giant

One hand was made manky, using coloured paper in the mache layering...

Giant hands for Panto Giant

Eventually looking like this...

Making hands for a pantomime giant costume

Some knuckle joint detail was drawn on using marker pen...

Making hands for a pantomime giant costume

and finger nails etc...

Making hands for a pantomime giant costume

To give basic details...

Making hands for a pantomime giant costume

Finally a top coat of coloured latex was applied. This is simply natural latex with craft paint mixed in...

Making hands for a pantomime giant

yum...

Making hands for a pantomime giant

Sponged on with a washing up sponge...

Making hands for a pantomime giant

Drying is sigificantly accelerated with heat from a hairdryer...

Making hands for a pantomime giant

The latex is opaque before it cures...

Making hands for a pantomime giant

As it dries, it starts to become transparent...

Making hands for a pantomime giant

The finished hands.

Making hands for a pantomime giant costume






1 comment:

  1. I saw a post about your animated avatar on Make and I just love the way you work, the way you bring together hands-on making and electronic stuff. Brill!

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