Random crap with Uno.

[Buster's Uncle]

I do now have a Masks folder where I'll look for it, and that's going to end up saving me a lot of aggravation, eventually.

Below is the first thing I ever did in plaster, back in 1988.  Most of the people in the class did lame crap with paper plates.  You will be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that I totally got an A.  It doesn't fit me all that well, because I caved the cheeks in a little as part of the face-shaping.  Mylochka says it's still recognizably me, which I can't believe.

The third is a paper mache impression I did of it a teeny bit more recently.  Looking at the base, you can imagine how much fun it was to separate and mend the back of the horns intact, so between that and having fondness for the somewhat fragile original, I may not do any more copies.  I don't think it's one of M's most inspired paint decoratings ever, but the little dancing devil silhouettes on the face are pretty teh awesome.

(The first shot enlarges when clicked on.)

[Unorthodox]

I do love the little dancing guys, but blue is a bit of an odd background for the mask that screams red.  With a different paint job, that could easily pass as an oni mask. 


. . . whats that black and red one underneath?  it appears to have an aztec feel from what I can see....

[Buster's Uncle]

I believe Aztec is indeed the motif of the skull mask you notice the edge of.  I've definitely posted it before, but I guess I ought to shoot it again on account of losing everything; or get new copies of Mylochka's pics...

That devil needs some shading to bring out the full lips and some of the other features, that's for sure.  I would have gone for the obvious, but classic and resonant, red devil look - but I'm collaborating with someone who has a delightful talent for decorative arglebargle detail that I wouldn't have thought of, and that's one of the glories of collaborating...

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm the first to admit that this isn't a fantastic mask, taken as the mask I made and not Mylochka's excellent paint job.  I was starting to resolve, towards the end of the last burst of making, that I needed to be making everything decidedly thicker and more inclined to hold shape around the edges, and stop trying to show off how thin and light I could go and still have a solid result.

I note that for anything I photographed myself, I still have the ridiculously-oversized original pics w/o size/cropping and whatever processing I deemed needed, so detail shots are very doable where anyone asks for a closer look.

[Unorthodox]

Reminds me of Ozomatli

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-monkey-ozomatli-servant-of-xochipilli-mexico-aztec-news-photo/152193300

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmm.  I've got a monkey face base, of course, and a collaborator who loves Mayan motifs...

[Buster's Uncle]

...We just discussed doing a series, in fact, of monkeys around the world where there's a design motif in a monkey/ape-inclusive culture that she'd like to play with...

[Unorthodox]

...We just discussed doing a series, in fact, of monkeys around the world where there's a design motif in a monkey/ape-inclusive culture that she'd like to play with...

Bigfoots. 

Seriously, do bigfoots.  And the various names for ape-men around the world. 

[Geo]

Oooh... visual trip to memory lane.

[Buster's Uncle]

For me, too, going back a lot further.

Bigfoots. 

Seriously, do bigfoots.  And the various names for ape-men around the world.

That might be a separate series - the idea was Indian-looking decorative argle-bargle around the edges of a Hanuman, Monkey King w/ Chinese decoration, and so on.

Yetis, etc., would be a challenge just having the face to work with, maybe...  She might be interested in going for realism and trying to imagine various distinct looks on the otherwise-identical faces, but she does her best work with riffing on human cultural styles - (we've talked before about why she's never played with Islamic mosque decoration; she agrees that it's a missed opportunity - but that's not a good source for figural inspiration, exactly, is it?)

[Unorthodox]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qS5f8rxm0bLOxddNK8h_0MrEJLrRFzm0sa5any2sP1M/edit


stumbled on while looking for mask pics.  written for a college class, rare interview I grant. 

[Unorthodox]

Need to find a bunch of bark for Talia's costume...

[Unorthodox]

First lighting of Mother (still need to find branches for arms/legs), looking for feedback: more babies needed (they'll be getting painted greenish soon)?

[Unorthodox]

man that first pic looks so much better on a darker theme....maybe time for me to fiddle with that here. 

[Unorthodox]

Gah, most alternatives have a real narrow body...