Hand Made Toy Cars
I was inspired by Ayman Baalbaki’s installation at the Bluecoat in Liverpool called Destination X, it featured used cars in Lebanon, literally. It was meant to exemplify the universal experience of the migrant, and it was an old white car packed with a family’s belongings. The Bluecoat features family art projects on a Saturday that integrate the exhibit in some way. On one particular Saturday, they had kids colouring in cars and pasting images from shopping catalogues on the top. This is what gave me the idea to start making vintage cars of my own to give as gifts to friends of all ages. It uses a couple of very simple puppet making techniques but can give very polished results. To begin with you will need to create an armature of some sort, the easiest way to do this is to sculpt a car out of crumpled up newspaper and hold it together is masking tape. It will help to look at a car, either in life or in a picture as you do this. The main thing that is important is to get the under body sorted out so that you can fit wheels and axles. Now take some paste, and this can be either thinned down pva, wood glue, wheat paste or wall paper paste and coat thin strips of brown paper in it, mashing it up so it is so and glue soaked. Cover the armature in with small torn off pieces of the glue soaked paper, let it dry between layers, sand it and then paint!
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