Today was spent designing and reflecting on how to sculpt the masks. I started by investigating our options on sculpting materials, and after a lot of hassling staff found out that we could have free use of the scrap clay from the clay rooms - this clay was wet buff clay with the occasional lump of hard clay in it; perfect for our purposes, since we didn't need a highly polished finish due to the nature of how we planned to create the masks.
I also investigated what we were going to build the masks on. After a quick visit into town I bought 4 baseball caps in a sale, with them being only 50p each. It made sense for the lions to be built onto them, as they were cheap, sturdy and adjustable. We could either glue or, preferably, sew the masks directly onto them.
We found a few life casted heads to sculpt some lions on - this was the perfect set up, however there weren't enough for all of the animals - so I also came up with a way of padding out a plastic bucket with foil to make a decent base for sculpting on.
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