Narnia

The second row - first four photos are the property of UDPAC the rest were taken by Jenni
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A shot on stage - to see the rest of the official photos click here	Aslin in a smaller mask and a wig of fuzzy yarn glued to a baseball cap (Jennie made the mane)	The White Stag. The masks were all made out of craft foam	Ferris - I hand painted the designs	Mrs. Beaver. Jenni's designs for the characters distinguished Mr. and Mrs. Beaver

After the show the cast came out to meet the audience	It was a good time to see them close up.	And my son was so happy to meet a doggy - that's a mask I made for him.	The Narnians all posed together for a group photo	Another one.

A squirrel. I discovered while making this mask that squirrels do not have distinctive facial features.	The ears were glued to the mane	The antlers were made of modeling magic clay - by crayola- painted with gold and pearlized acryilic	The costumes Jenni designed were meant to be simple so that the masks were the only identification of animal	Mrs. Beaver - some of the paint peeled, probably due to this mask having more layers of paint than the others, and all the heat of the lights.

A rabbit - the ears were glued to barretts	Cheetah	Unicorn - I used a sewing bobbin glued to the mask with a dowl sticking out as the base. Then I used modeling magic and painted it pearlized bone and gold high lights	Ferris mask close up	Mr. Beaver - his face and

A rabbit close up. All of the masks had a golden varnish applied over them	Closer Cheetah	Staight on unicorn	A good wolf	A bear

Yellow bird	Fox	Reindeer - the modeling magic is easy to work with but needs a lot of structure underneith- which takes time. So these were made flat with two layers of foam glued together with popcycle sticks inside	A bad wolf	Another bad wolf

Blue Bird	Dog - I used photos of basset hounds	Horns for fauns - glued on to a head band for a boy with short hair and glued on to barrets for others with long hair	Another bad wolf	Yet another (I made 8 of these bad boys)

Another hound	another	A side view - the ears were fabric glued to barrets.


Before the show, Jenni took me back to meet the cast.	They practiced a song and one of the dogs practiced dancing. It was very funny. I was glad to see them together.	But before I left, they read poems and said good byes to each other and were very teary eyed as this was their last show.