beneath the masks

I was making some masks for a halloween event... you can guess the animals, and then which one is mine and which one is Dave's...

This is the starting point... first build up the shape with plastacine, and then I used varaform, which is a thermoplastic mesh... when you dunk it in boiling water it goes all floppy and and can be twisted into different shapes, then when it gets cold, it sets hard...

so in about 30 seconds, full of blue language and burning fingers, you can create really lightweight rigid shapes to work on...