To make my large scale foam puppet, I had to draw on skills that I had previously learnt whilst making the other puppets so far. The mouth of this puppet was made in a similar way to how the mouth of the sock puppet was made; by cutting out some card in an oval shape to fit your hand. The head was made out of three different foam parts, the chin/jaw, the face and the back of the head.
I spent quite a bit of time planning this puppet as the character was loosely based on the smaller foam puppet I had made the previous week. However, I found that once I started to carve the puppet out of the foam block, the puppet started to take on its own character so I decided not to follow my original idea so strictly. I spent a very long time making sure that the surface of the foam was smooth once i had carved out all of the general features of the face. This would make it easier to paint or cover during the later stages of the puppet making. Similarly to the smaller foam puppet, I found it hard to really round off the face and I can see, especially now that the puppet is very nearly finished that her head still appears to be quite square. Whilst I carved out her eyes and nose from the original foam block I had to work with, I decided to carve her ears out separately and I thought It would be easier to add them after as for a long time I had to work of the smoothness and shape of the side of the head meaning I was constantly cutting and changing the surface. Having painted straight onto a foam surface before, I decided that I didn't really like the look and want to aim for a smoother looking finish. I decided to papermache the surface of the puppet. This took quite a while to do due to its size and quite a while to dry properly as the foam absorbed the PVA and water. Once it was dry I was able to paint the face and hands which by this point I had also carved and papermached. I decided to make her body and clothing from some material I had at home. I stuffed her body to give her more shape and sewed half way down her arms to create elbows so the arms could be bent and manipulated. I am continuing to work on the finished look on this puppet and I am going to aim to add legs and make the hair more lifelike.
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