Duck and Rabbit

 Duck Develops

 Rabbit Begins

Since Easter is just around the corner, we decided to add a rabbit mask to the ducky mask we started last week.


Since everybody has had some experience with the paste and the paper we just dug in a got rolling.


When so many hands are working things get accomplished very fast--and well.


I was impressed and I think the workshop people were too.


Next session will finish these two masks, and we will go on to some other projects we have in mind.

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April First Ducky Mask

 Duck Mask Creation. (Tomasito Photo)

No joke!

This morning (4/1/11) we had the very first meeting of  interested clients at the Westview in Temecula for a session of papier mache fun--I almost said "work".

The suggestion was that we try to make a duck mask so I demonstrated the technique of papier mache to make a wearable duck mask.


We  used a paper grocery sack stuffed with wadded up newspaper for a maquette and taped on some big  "eyes" of wadded newspaper and a bill of cardboard.

The group quickly got the hang of tearing newspaper strips and dipping them into good flour and water boiled paste--  and almost before we knew it-- there was a mighty ducky-looking mask!


We left it to dry over the weekend and Monday we may be able to finish it! Then we hope to get going on a bunny mask just in time for Easter.

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