Bacon!

The bacon beckons!

Foam is so much fun to sculpt. Along with the masks Pammy and I are making for the play "Tales from Norway" to be performed by the students of her musical theater class over at St. Phillips College, we've got an assortment of other costume-ish pieces and hand props to build.  That's a hell of a long sentence! 

Anyway, there are animal characters in the show so we've got to make several sets of hooves for goats, cows and sheep. There is also the over-sized strip of bacon and the ham. You heard right. Pork is the word! 

And these things will be made mostly of foam like the kind we used to sculpt many a prop in the circus. It's a versatile material. You can make anything out of foam and it's like sewing in that you have to have a pattern to follow of whatever it is you're making. I'm really pleased with how the props are shaping up, especially the bacon. Wouldn't it be great if I could get it to smell like bacon?

Bacon in progress.