The designs show for each artist to wear head-dresses and these hats are inspired from the horns seen on vikings helmets. As they will be worn all day means they need to be lightweight but also secure to stay in place. Following the example created by the design team myself and another student worked together in creating two further hats to contribute. To create the shape shown below we had to cut a series of circles from blue foam using a hot saw in the workshop. Then once cut we could angle them so that when together they would create the curved horn shape pictured below.
Then using a glue gun to fix in place they were ready to be filed for a smooth finish. As the characters are intended to have been well travelled the horns need to appear worn and broken down. To add texture we mixed sand into PVA glue to coat the foam before painting over them. Keeping this idea of worn down horns we painted a graduated colour of dark brown going up to white before using gold to highlight the raised sections of sand. I think the gold has helped in creating a really effective finish to show horns that are tired and battered from the sea.
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