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School Picture Day:  Part 2 - Gettin' my paper mache' on

10/15/2013

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After two paper mache' balloon blowouts, I finally had success with my third attempt.  Note to self:  keeping balloons away from light bulbs equals less flour and paper in your face. [Side note:  I prefer to use supermarket brown bags and a heated flour/water mixture for the paper mache' goop.  That seems to work the best]  As you can see, I made a hole in the front for my face and used a box cutter to cut some holes and insert other pieces that I wanted for my school picture creation.    I then hot glued them in place and used gesso to give my creation some consistency color wise.  Then as anyone would do after having a frustrating day at work, I decided to....
make a companion to go on top of what I was making.  I used one smaller balloon and attached four skinny balloons to the bottom.  This took awhile but at least nothing blew up on me.  I think you can take a guess what I am making with what it looked like after numerous layers of paper mache'
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I was inspired by a children's story I am working on involving an octopus.  


Stay Tuned for the painting process and the reveal of  this year's school picture along with a Freaky Friday Book Review :)
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