This is a very early prop piece from 2005. I wanted to make horns from paper mache. It worked out OK. I used armature wire inside them and then covered them with twisted paper bags to get the twisted and curled appearance. I then covered them with strip mache and watered down glue. I finally painted them with a high gloss black paint. My methods have changed a lot since then and I have leaned a lot about construction and painting. This piece fell over on Halloween night and one of his horns broke off from his head, I was not too heartbroken, I saved the pieces, I have them in a box somewhere in the shop. I think I will use him as a concept piece and remake him someday.
I used to get caught up in certain aspects of a piece like in this case the horns. Leaving the rest of the piece to wane, the teeth were too white, the body was not much to speak of. Now when I make a piece I look at it from all sides and do not over work any one aspect too much.
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There's good advice in this. Working the entire piece also increases the likelyhood of finishing it. For me, concentrating on any one area too long makes it difficult to match that 'favoured' area… often leading that unfinished work to a shelf.
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