Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Cardboard Roll Gods



These little 'Easter Island' type gods are made out of old cardboard rolls. Funny what you do when you got so many really important things to do you can't sleep.

Basically they're just old toilet-paper cardboard tubes that I scrunched up by hand (sometimes adding a bit of water to soften them). Sometimes I snipped a bit with nail scissors to help get particular folds or features.  When I got the shape roughly right I put an elastic band around them laterally(from top to bottom) to help hold them in shape while I painted them with acrylics to try and get a weather-beaten stone effect.

I've also got some pictures I've taken in a more natural/woodland setting, which I'll upload at some point.
In fact, here they are:






















 Crazy looking bunch I reckon :)


If you want to see how how a real master does it, look HERE