There’s a House in my Boot!

I never knew spray-foam insulation was so fun... but I had always assumed it was.

This project was actually for a drawing class. The prompt being: draw a shoe but make it *your own*.
So I tried drawing shoes, but I just wasn't inspired. Eventually I started drawing the little-old-lady-who-lives-in-a-shoe's house, and my teacher came over and asked, "You wanna build that?". My brain gears went into overdrive, and I basically planned the whole thing right there where I sat. 
I had never tried it before, but I wanted to use spray-foam insulation to make a blob, and then sculpt it into a shoe. I decided to make a frame out of foam core, and spray the insulation into that. It worked flawlessly.

As expected, the carving result wasn't perfectly smooth, so I ended up paper mache-ing it before adding details and painting it. My teacher ended up adding the shoelace, because for some reason I couldn't think how to lace a shoe.

A project like this would normally take a diligent student two weeks. I was finished in three or so days.
​I went into the art room at every opportunity I had to finish the frame, paper mache it, and paint and detail it. It was one of those projects I wanted to finish, so I didn't stop until I had. The result is all the better for it.