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This last picture was taken today (Friday) long after it had fallen to bits and I had cleaned up. Its pretty difficult to see, but you should be able to see how stretched it became compered to the above picture which was also stretched due to weight issues (maybe I should have called Dr. Phil). The nose was also flattened out of shape. Despite what you see here, it was unsalvageable. You
have to remember at the time this was all under three layers of paper (yes I can hear you saying that was too many!)
Now, I have to do it again. Maybe not with this head (which was meant to be St. Patrick himself). I had made a slightly smaller head but its got long bits like pointy elf ears and a long nose (I'm a big fan of Jak and Daxter on
the PS2). And this has to be pasted and painted by Friday. I'm going to need a freakin miracle!!! It was humiliating. During the week nearly all the parents
Where do I begin...
Ok, the paper-mache head I was working on decided to collapse today!! I guess I simply put too much paper on it (3rd layer). The combined weight of the paper and glue was incredibly heavy. I had no idea it would get that heavy! damn it to hell anyway. While I was working on it, it started to keel over. I quickly grabbed it making holes for my fingers. That wasn't a problem. The problem was the speed with which I caught it combined with gravity causing the weight to pull down on the head, pulling it out of shape. I cleared big gaps of the paper so that I could pull the wire back into shape. That turned out to be a massive mistake (put the damage was already done by this stage anyway). The paper had no grip of its own and just peeled off by its own accord. Damn it to hell. It was just painful to look at in the end. I didn't even bother to take pictures of it till I took all the paper off. But I did take pictures of the project as I went along and I have them here. .
In the beginning. You can see I was ill-prepared for its
future weight, but that did eventually change long before
the real trouble...
This picture was taken on Wednesday. The school (where
I was working) was closed Thursday. It was looking pretty
good, no? This was the result of three steady days of
pasting...
This last picture was taken today (Friday) long after it had fallen to bits and I had cleaned up. Its pretty difficult to see, but you should be able to see how stretched it became compered to the above picture which was also stretched due to weight issues (maybe I should have called Dr. Phil). The nose was also flattened out of shape. Despite what you see here, it was unsalvageable. You
have to remember at the time this was all under three layers of paper (yes I can hear you saying that was too many!)
Now, I have to do it again. Maybe not with this head (which was meant to be St. Patrick himself). I had made a slightly smaller head but its got long bits like pointy elf ears and a long nose (I'm a big fan of Jak and Daxter on
the PS2). And this has to be pasted and painted by Friday. I'm going to need a freakin miracle!!! It was humiliating. During the week nearly all the parents
had come through where I was working because there was a book sale. They all praised at how good it was turning out. All the kids were impressed, they never seen anything like it before! I was so looking forward to it being painted and have the whole town see it...
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...Ya, not anymore! For the first time since I can remember, I cried over an art failure.
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...Ya, not anymore! For the first time since I can remember, I cried over an art failure.
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