We have had a session in the workshop playing around with vac forming and cutting blue foam with a hot wire. This image below is some shapes I cut out and experiemented with paint to make them look like seaweed. I am considering creating a seaweed headress and this would be easy to shape and light to wear but may be too light in the harsh winds by the coast so would need some sort of strap to hold it on.
I have found this session very helpful as it gave me ideas on how to relalise some of the intial ideas I have. These techniques are practical ways of creating a carnival costume that I would have never thought of before, the materials used are lightweight and would be comfortable to wear.
These are some photographs of various materials vac formed over a mold of a face. This plasterzote form above is perfect for masks as it is soft against the skin and takes decoration (paint, glitter, sequins etc) well.
The clear and black plastic materials are not so practical as it would be uncomfortable to have the raw edge againt any skin and once VAC formed it is not very felxible to work with so the children would find it hard to cut as well as potetially dangerous.
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