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The Moonface continues.

On the way home from work I stopped by KMart to pick up some lead sinkers for the ballast. In the picture below you can see them attached to the upper rib (they’re in the wad of tape). 15 ounces of lead should act as sufficient counterweight to keep him from falling over backwards.

When I made Norman, I wasn’t ever really sure what I was making until I got to the end. I had papered the whole main structure before deciding to add the nose. And once the nose was added, I went back and added eyes. Once he had eyes, I added the mouth. In this case, I know what the end result is going to be so instead of papering, restructuring, and re-papering, I can do all the structural work up front and then do the paper all at once.

The detail work on the eyes will wait until the end, of course. I haven’t settled on an expression for this one yet anyway. I’m ooking forward to adding the craters. They should really make this piece pop.

I’ll work on the mouth tomorrow night and if I can get the structure done early enough I’ll start the first layer of paper before I go to bed. It’s conceivable this guy could be done Thursday night.

I’m already planning my next project: a large-ish bonsai tree using real tree branches as the structure. I’m going to weave some small white Christmas lights along the branches to act as leaves before I apply the paper. If it works out how I see it my mind I think it’ll look pretty sweet.