Mask Making

Years ago the kids and I experimented with using modeling clay on a Styrofoam head to make a weirdly inhuman mask shapes.  They took forever to dry and the modelling clay was hard to pry out from the paper mask.  We painted them but they ended up just sitting around for years gathering dust, never quite finished.

I decided to revisit the masks this month and giving them an all new paint job, adding materials to them and creating glass eyes.

My first mask redo was a cat like mask with a ridge of bumps up the centre of it's face. Once painted, I added wool to create a mane and painted glass beads as eyes which I then mounted in behind the mask.  It looked even better when I lit the mask from within making the eyes light up.

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My next mask was a tad weirder.  My daughter had originally made the shape by adding modelling clay to the mouth area before papering over top.  It had a strange gas mask-like appearance.  I ran with this idea but added bits of black spray painted plastic I melted with a match, small glass vials filled with different materials, a pair of glasses and again glass eyes lit form behind.

I love how it turned out even if it's a bit creepy.

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