Masks and other Art

[Unorthodox]

Definitely reading more canine there.  Muzzle length and width, or building out the cheeks more to cover the width.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah - some of that's the shape, too, which shouldn't taper so smoothly back into the rest of the face.  It's just a roughed beginning, and that part's going to have to be made smaller.

[Buster's Uncle]

This is beginning to come together...

[Unorthodox]

Little more rounded on the top brow, and you could be right into furry territory with that. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Saw the same thing in the pics...

[Buster's Uncle]

Baked and outer layer of paper drying.  After supper, the first layer of latex...

[Buster's Uncle]

It's sure to be a colossal pain getting masks off the kitten form, because of the ears, so I'm still adding layers of the latex cover, for strength and thickness.  Might be tomorrow before I can begin making masks...


Another thing I'm working on -this is new today- is making a solid sculptamold (hereinafter refered to as "spitwad") base cast from the big face I've already been working with.

-I've always intended to do a modification with a pronounced jaw for the Captain character in comedia del arte'...

[Unorthodox]

Try mixing some drywall mud into the spitwad.  Had really good luck with that. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I had something like a handful of plaster left - I added that to the water before the pulp.  We'll see if that helps, because spitwad is a pain to carve...

-Incidentally, for a mold, I simply made a thickish paper mâché mask w/o holes and lined it with latex as I always do - it seems to have worked...

[Buster's Uncle]

I've had a rush project drop into my lap.

There's this art galley/artists' collective in town that Buster's Daddy has gotten us involved with -part of why I've gotten active again with this suddenly- that's doing the Christmas window decoration Friday, and Mylochka wanted to do up a couple of mini-masks to hang on the tree.  -This is an old spitwad cast from a store-bought mask that I can't find anymore, pictured about life-size.  Something else to put a couple of layers of latex on before I can knock out some masks...


All that white didn't much want to photograph.

[Unorthodox]

I could see a bunch of...not sure the term for that type mask....

female masquerade types.  Done up painted like poinsettias (spelling) instead of the more traditional feathers looking good on a tree

[Unorthodox]

The feathered ones here:

[Unorthodox]

Reindeer ish ones could work too...


In my circles, a straight up POTO tree would do well.  (phantom of the opera) with masks and roses.  This would work well in a window box if you themed everything to it as well. 

DO NOT underestimate the possibility of going Nightmare before Christmas. 

Lock, Shock, and Barrel masks. 

https://www.google.com/search?q=poinsettia&biw=1229&bih=588&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgrc7q0prQAhUT9WMKHZ2IBQcQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=lock+shock+and+barrel+masks



In an appropriately themed box...(license issues might come into play however)

[Buster's Uncle]

Again, that one's pictured about life-size.  It's doll-scale, not human.

-However, we do have one or two appropriate ones to work with.  As you say, there's a lot of possibilities...

[Buster's Uncle]

Good night and God bless.