So I spent several hours this past week beak making. I feel that if I were to make two or three more beaks, I'd master beak-making, but at least I produced something adequate, though not nearly as finely wrought as I would have liked:
Unfortunately there seems to be a cartoon show about spies in which there's a character who looks a lot like this,
and that's what quite a few kids at school thought he was.
Oh well.
He does look like a character from Spy vs. Spy! I wonder if the character design was inspired by the silhouette of plague doctors?
ReplyDeleteNot bad. Papier-mâché? Maybe next time with internal structure to get that arch?
ReplyDeleteOr - here's a fab idea - maybe next time BEN could do it???
Somehow, I think you'll like that idea best...
well, actually I enjoyed the beak making very much, and wouldn't mind trying again...
DeleteRegardless of what the kids thought your son was and how the mask turned out, I think it is SO COOL that your son KNOWS what a Venetian Plague doctor is and that he wanted to be one for Halloween! I applaud you for raising a child with this depth of knowledge and for supporting him in his interests by making a costume for him! You all deserve a trip to Venice to buy a mask for next year...
ReplyDeleteI have to confess that my own knowledge of Venetian plague doctors was rather sketchy this time last month...
DeleteYou are a better mother than I am. I would have said, "Make it yourself or find something else to be." I hate making things. (inedible things)
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