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1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Casey, an
artist and creator and someone living with
psoriatic arthritis. This is an invisible
auto immune disease that changed my life and turned it upside down
to say the least. I was grieving the life I thought I'd have battling
chronic pain and fatigue and started on a journey searching for a
way to express my feelings. When I discovered art
became my therapy, my voice, and my healing. Today, I want to share that journey with
you through one of my favorite projects,
Styrofoam planter heads. This class, I will show you
step by step how to turn boring planter heads into
stunning planter pot holders. We will turn these planter heads into beautiful painted faces using acrylic paint
and adorn them with beautiful tribal
head wraps and jewelry. Whether you're here to learn a fun new craft or just to
find a creative outlet, you are welcome here because this course is
beginner friendly. Let's create something
beautiful together, not just something that
holds your plants, but something that also
shares your story.
2. Chapter 1: Tools: The list of all
items I'm going to be using will be in
the resources area.
3. Chapter 2 : Preparing the Styrofoam Head: Now we have Ostyr from head to get a pair of
scissors and what we are going to do is to puncture the top of the
head to create a hole. We are going to do lobotomy
on this planter head. It's a little therapeutic. So now we are going to carve out a deep hole on top
of this planter head. This is the hardest part, the initial cutting
away off the top. But once you start to get
deeper into the planter head, it's going to be much easier. Uh, Now we will measure our terracotta pots, which should be 4 ", see if it fits into
the planter head. This is what it looks like. Our planter head, this is ready. And now we're going to trim
around the top to kind of make it a little
bit more uniformed. Don't worry. It's not
going to be smooth. You want it to be perfect. Third call.
4. Chapter 3: Water Proofing: So now we are going to
start the waterproofing and also the portion where you make the
planter head smooth. By putting mudgepodge
on the planter head. I use the mat udgePodge to just paint all over and
inside the planter head. I am using a wide paintbrush because it just makes
everything easier. You can cover a large amount of the surface area with
this wide paintbrush. As you can see, we go around
the sides and the bottoms, and as I said, you're going to go inside the top of the
plant your head as well.
5. Chapter 4.1 : Painting: Now we are going to
paint the planter head. So before we start
the painting process, we will leave our planter
head to dry for 24 hours. And now we are going to
paint the planter head in whatever color you fit
you choose to paint it. I'm going with more of
a skin to and color. And you will use acrylic
paints for this. We're going to paint all
of the planter head, including the inside
of the planter head. Now we are going to allow
the planter head to dry. You can use a blow dryer. Don't put it too close to the planter head and blow
it to allow it to dry faster so that you can apply a second layer
if you want to. As you can see, I chose
to use a blow dryer. Now I am applying
my second layer. I use the same flat brush
that I used with the mudgPod. I just ensure that I cleansed
it with water and soap. Now I am doing the bottom of the planter head and I'm using my trusty blow dryer to
get it to dry quickly.
6. Chapter 4.2 : Painting The Eyebrows: Now, I'm going to use
this eyebrow template to help me to draw the eyebrows on so they
look somewhat decent. You can free hand it. You can use either option. This template will be
provided in the resources. As you can see, I'm going
ahead with cutting it out. I placed it on the plan to head to get the placement right. And you've given me an idea of what it looks like and
where I want it to go. Now I'm going to further
cut the eyebrows out a Once again, I am checking the basement and the aesthetic of what
the eyebrow will look like. Now I am using my acrylic paint
pen and using a Paka pen, but you can use any
acrylic paint pen. I am putting some dots on the areas where I want the eyebrows to be drawn and
where I will connect it. It's a guide for me to
know where to drive. You can do this both ways and I will show you both ways
that you can achieve this. And you can do this
two different ways, and I will be showing you
the two different ways that I achieve the eyebrows. As I cut the second eyebrow, I make sure that the
stencils match up. So now for this second eyebrow, I am also doing the same points. So when mapping
out this eyebrow, I think about the eyes as if
they are cut into thirds, and the arch of the eyebrow will be over the middle
third of the eye. I am using the stencil as a
guide to draw the eyebrow on. This is Method one. And then for the second eyebrow, I want to show you method too. I takes a little work to get the eyebrows in the position that you
want them to be in. Now, after I put the
points on this eyebrow, I remove the stencil
and I am going to connect that free
hand with my free hand. Okay. To draw on this eyebrow. I want to remove
the stencil from the other eyebrow to see what we have to see if they look somewhat similar and
the placement is okay. I think mine is okay. They don't have to be perfect, but you just want them to look somewhat similar and to
be on the same level. Now I'm going to use the paint
pen to fill in my eyebrow. I'm going to do the same thing
here for the second one. From here, you can
also fix any flaws, anything to make the eyebrow
look as similar as possible. From here, you'll fix any flaws. Take your time. It looks nice. I'm satisfied with this. Giving you another close
up look at the eyebrows.
7. Chapter 4.3 : Painting the face: Now I am going to
paint the lips on. I will follow the outline
of the planter heads lips. Then I fill in the
bottom portion. You can use whatever colors you want to paint the eyebrows in, you can use whatever colors you want to paint the lips in. It's up to your artist decision. For the top of the lips, I am forming an M just to give her a more
defined cupid bow. And then I fill it in
with the red marker. Once again, take
your time with this. I'm defining the top
of her lips a bit more to balance it out with
the bottom of the lip. Again, I made that M shape. Oh, she's looking sassy. She's looking fine. I love it. See? I just takes a steady
hand, but it's not hard. It's really not hard. We are going to do the eyelids
and if you look closely, the eyes have a lower part, we're going to stay on the
top portion of her eyes.
8. Chapter 4.4 : Finishing the face: And I will show you
here when I trace the outline of the eyelids. See, I do not go all the way down to the
bottom of the eyes. I have an empty error there. Showing that to you again. And now I'm going to
fill in the eyelids, the top of the eyelids. Once again, you can pick whatever fun colour you
want for her eye shadow. A This is so satisfying. Now she has her eyelids and defined outline to give
her prominent eyes. In this, the eyes are
going to be closed. Now I'm going to add
glitter to her eye shadow. I'm going to be using
Mug podge again, and you're going to
mix the glitter, whichever glitter color
you want to choose and you're going to mix
it with the MdgePdge. And paint it onto her eyes. Again, take your time. And now, of course, I'm
using a smaller paint brush, so I don't get glitter
all over her face. I just wanted to stay right
there on the top of the eyes. It can be a pain to remove glitter from
the rest of the face. I mean, it won't be
anything hard, but, you know, we just want to
keep it as clean as possible. And I will be painting several layers of this
until I'm satisfied with the level of gold glitter
that I have on the eyelight. Until I am satisfied
with the amount of shine and glitter added
to the eyeshadow. Here I am trying to
give you a close I'm trying to give
you a closer view of the placement of the glitter. Now I'm going to give her some African tribal
prints on her face. Again, this is where you will use your own artistic creation. To create whatever shapes, whatever lines,
whatever embellishment you want to put on her face. Also in the resources section, I will give you a guide
of the different types of African facial travel marks that you can put on the face. If that's what you choose to do, you can also put
rhinestones on her face, pearls, you name it. Whatever you want, you can put on the world's oyster
with this one. I like this. I am liking this. I'm going to do some shapes
on the sides of her cheeks. As you can also see that the eyeshadow is looking shiny and the mage
fudge has dried clear. That's a beauty of Mgepdge. It does dry clear. I added some more marks on
the second side of her cheek. Okay. I like this.
It is looking nice. A
9. Chapter 5 : Accessorizing : No. So now for the fun part, we will be adding
her accessories. I got this headband. And when you get a headband, it has to look like this. It has to go all the way
to the back of the head. It can't be those
little headbands. You have to have a lot
of fabric to work with. Another option is getting
just some fabric. A fabric with any pattern, put it around the
head, measure it, and then you tie
the bow at the top. But I find this to be easier when I get it
pre tied like this. Now I'm going to use
a hot blue gun to ensure that this
headband stays in place. And it also serves as covering up the top of that
uneven planter head. So we fold it inward, again, to cover the jaggerd
parts of the planter head. So as you know, we're working with styrofoam, so we have to be gentle with it. And sometimes,
when you touch it, a piece might fall off. As you can see at the
top of my planter head, there's a little
flaw right there. But I'm not going
to worry about that because it's going to
be covered up Anyways. She is looking fine. All right. So now we are going to further
go ahead and attach some. Now we're going to go and
further attach the base of the head band with the blue
ensure that it is solid, that it is set in place
and won't come up. In the resources section, I will provide links to
these products on Amazon. I am liking everything
about the plans ahead. Now I am removing some of the glue that got on it to
just gently rub it off. It was hard to not have glue from the glue
gen on plant your head, but just rub it off and
it will come right up. Now I'm getting ready
to add her earrings and we are going to attach it to where you would think
her ears would land. I recommend getting
bold big earrings so that it gives a
more prominent look. This is another
reason why you do want the fabric to
come all the way to her ears because then you need that space
for the earrings. Now, we are going to
attach some eyelashes to her to give her
a bit more pizzas. I'm going to attach
a thin layer of the glue from the hot
glugen to the lines of the eyebrow and I will place it right at the
base of the eye lid. I'm going to attach the second
eye lash and once again, I will be putting the hot glue and a thin layer of the hot
glue on the eyelash. I usually get big
and bold eyelashes as well because you do want
her features to stand out. You just press it in gently to ensure that it is
in the right position. We are done. Check out our planter head
with so much personality. I love making these
planter heads, and I want to see what your
planter heads look like. Please share pictures of your planter heads in the
section that is provided. I know you're going
to love making these. And the finished product
is so satisfying. Well done. Thank you for
joining me in this class.
Casey Howell
