Mark Montano Crafts: Making Baby Head Paperweights

It's official. The rainy season in Montana is underway. I don't mind it as much as some. A decade living in Scotland taught me to enjoy life, regardless of weather.

And rain means good things to come: lots of water down our creek, carpets of wildflowers on summer hikes and (hopefully) not as much smoke from forest fires during the dry months of July and August.

Bad weather is a good time to catch up on projects around our place. Remember this one?

Baby Head Paperweights from Mark Montano's book, Big-Ass Book of Crafts. These are actually headed for the sculpture garden that I am planning around my art studio. (Well, ok, maybe this is the only project I'm "planning", but I hope there will be others.)
 

This morning, I filled seven doll heads with plaster-of-paris and added a kabob skewer - which I hope will help keep them upright in the garden.

To get that mottled, kinda drunk-fake Rococo look, I'll finish them up with black and gold spray paints, as Montano instructed.

As always, I had help from my trusty art assistant, White Kitty. He seems to know the difference between the sound of me doing laundry and the sound of me doing something really pretty weird in the
laundry room. Just one of the things I love about him.

Comments

[zannestar]

woah - very cool, might have to make a few of these for my jardin.

[teent]

Good ol' Little Man! Glad to see you've started the garden.