more cassette tape portraits

Puppets and Casette Tapes

In art we are all busy on making our puppets. I only started last week so I haven't got a lot done ..yet. We are making them by using recycable materials like newspaper , toilet rolls , milk bottles and cling film rolls too. At the minute I am working on my puppets head so hopefully I will start to paper machet it next week and then I will move on to the body.

In art we were also doing casette portraits of famous people we like. I chose Danny O'Donoghue from The Script. We started buy drawing the person we wanted to do and then from there we had to start filling it in using casette tapes.

-Hazel Bermingham

Cassette Tape and Puppet Work!

At the moment I am working on my own puppet. I finished my Cassette Potrait which was of Jean Baptiste. I found some parts of the Potrait hard as the pieces were really thin to work with and it was hard to stick down at the start. But the more I worked on  it the easier it became. At the moment I am working on my puppet. I got my idea from the character of Up. I started building up the materials from tissue and I am paper macheing the face. The next step is to build up the body and to start making the arms and feet.

                                                  - Aisling Cunniffe.

Puppet Work!

For the past few weeks I have been making my puppet in art class and I am making great progress with it. I started gathering many different pieces of recyclable materials from home in order to make my puppet. I started my puppet by getting pieces of newspaper together and stuck it with tapae. I built this up until I was happy with the shape of my head. I began creating features on the face by using egg cartons as the ears, nose, eyes and mouth. At the moment I am paper macheting my puppets face and should be finished with that soon. I will then cover the face with brown bags to give a tanned look to my puppets face.Once I have the face finished I will make the body by using kitchen rolls and milk bottles. I am looking forward to seeing my puppet finished and I am having a great time making my puppet.

Aoibhinn Daly.

Casette tape portraits and puppets

This term we made potraits of a famous person we like. I chose to do a portrait of Victoria Justice from Victorious. Firstly we found a picture and then we pixelized that picture. The black parts of the picture were where we were going to put the strings of casette tapes. We started putting the casette tapes on in all different ways, straight lines for straight hair and twirling the tapes for curly hair, they all looked amazing when they were finished. After we made portraits we began to make puppets. Today I started making the head of my puppet using a balloon and paper maché.
Chanice

Cassette tape, still going!

I am  still working on my cassette tape portrait of Marilyn Monroe. It's going well though slowly and I think I should be finished soon. I have been using PVA glue to stick the tape down, which has been good overall, but there has been quite a lot of peeling with the older pieces. I think that this project has been a good and challenging one and I have enjoyed it immensely.
   -Juliette

cassette tape and puppet:)

I have finished my Mrs. Brown cassette tape piture. I have now started my puppet. The first thing I had to do was make the head for my puppet so I rolled newspaper into balls and put masking tape on it to hold it together. I then put my puppets  head on to a toilet roll for the neck of my puppet. Then I started to develop the features for my puppets face. I used the lids off plastic bottles for the ears and nose. I got newspaper and rolled it into shapes for my mouth and eyebrows. I am now doing paper matte on my puppets face I am nearly finisged and I am then going to start the body.

 Rosie:)