Miss Piggy - Kermit Dress #5

matte varnish, white and black spray paint,
the ball halves, and the pupil pattern.
And Kermit inspector. 

The making of the eyes. Kermit's eyes are made from a pingpong ball, cut in half, but there is a scale problem, pingpong balls ratio to the human head are too small, compared to Kermit's or Piggy's heads. Another solution was needed. I found 6cm diameter transparent xmas balls, which size seemed quite right.

First, I cut the tabs on each half and filed out the extra lip. Meanwhile, Lidl had a spray paint promotion, I've used their spray paints before, and I like them. Pretty sturdy. Unfortunately the colour variety is very limited to primary colours and black, white and grey. But I only needed black and white, and I also got a matte varnish. Ball, ckeck; paints, check.

outside of the ball halves, taped to the cereal box. 

inside of the ball halves, taped to the cereal box.

I traced the balls and cut two circles out of a cereal box with a box cutter, and taped the ball halves to the holes. Ideally, I'd use paper tape, but most of those materials are already at the new flat, so I taped them with normal scotch tape. More on that later.

the ball insides, spray painted white.

I spray painted three coats of white to the insides. When I was taking off the tape, it left a bit of residue. I tried to wash it off with dishwashing liquid, but it wasn't enough, so I rubbed it off with a cotton wipe with alcohol.

shiny xmas balls, painted white on the inside.

matted, formerly shiny, xmas balls.

Pingpong balls are matte, but perspex xmas balls are shiny. So I sprayed them with a matte varnish/sealant, to achieve the satiny matte texture of pingpong balls.

pupil masks.

Kermit eyeballs with Kermit supervisor. 

I traced the pupil pattern onto scraps of sticker paper, leftover from another project and traced it twice. Then I carefully applied the masks to the eyeballs, and spray painted three coats of black. The next day I removed the masks, and I love them! They're not perfect, not as glossy as I would like, and one of them isn't completely saturated on one of the sides. But it's hardly noticeable, if I try to fix it, I'll probably ruin it.

+ It was great fun making a pair of Kermit eyes, I love them!

- Pity the pupils aren't 100% like I planned, but I can live with their imperfections.

THE CUNNING PLAN 

Pattern the ears and snout, and make them out of the foam.