Saturday 21 January 2012

Responses to Shrunken heads

I decided to do some responses to the Shrunken heads, as I found them so interesting! :D 

(from left to right, top to bottom) Stitched into brown paper using thread, linear pencil drawing, latex heads.
I created these heads by making a mold of a dolls head, the first one was made by a clay mold, the second by a mod-roc cast, and the third was made slightly differently, I dipped the dolls head into latex and dried each layer one by one, it has about 8 layers in total. When the latex was dry, I was able to peel it off, revealing a hollow latex head! I prefer the shape of the last one for the front of my hand-made book, because it is shaped more like a shrunken head, however I may have to weigh up the pro's and con's when deciding which head use, as the others would attach more firmly onto the book but are not the shape i was aiming for.

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