This week has been pretty busy for me, and the weather has been so nice out that I did not spend a lot of time working on my Carousel project. I did manage to get the silhouette of the giraffe drawn, transferred to the cardstock and cut out.
I did not realize that there was that much of a difference until after I cut out the silhouette and compared one to the other. There is a little bit of a discrepancy in the belly area as well. However, the differences are small, and I think I will be able to make them up when I start adding the paper mâché strips to the figure. I decided not to redraw the animal. Sometimes trying to correct just ends up making things worse.
The giraffe was a challenge because of its size. I had planned to do all the animals at 1/8 scale. The giraffe was so large that I had to reduce the size. It was going to be so tall that it would cause the entire roof of the carousel to be higher. I had to reduce its size a little bit to keep the whole piece from being something that was larger than would look well in most homes. This is going to be a big project.
These animals are really the same size; I just did not place them well for the picture.
So long story short, now that I have reduced the size of the animal, it looks out of proportion to the other animals.
I have not decided yet whether or not to proceed with the giraffe and just let it be small, or to discard the giraffe for a different animal. I will be thinking about that this week.
Check back next week (Monday or Tuesday) for a new post on the carousel animals.
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