I'm Plastered, Pt. II

After all the planning and tutorials, we finally began work upon the masks we had designed for each of our own folktales. If you remember, my Indonesian folktale told the story of a beautiful princess who did not want to marry a courting giant. Without much of an idea for what giants look like (except for the one in the Harry Potter movies), I went about designing my own. Although this courting giant seemed royal in a sense, I still wanted to retain a certain foolishness in his character. For that reason I included not only a silly shaped mouth but also a "crown" of hair, as you can see in my sketch above. With the knowledge we had gained from the tutorial earlier last month, we first set about cutting our base mask to get it into the shape we imagined. The forehead was much too large on the base mask so I ended up carving a good chunk of it off while giving my mask a lima beaned shape. Then after plastering a first layer onto the base mask, I began to build on the features of the large nose and hairy eyebrows. I just hope that my mask is thick enough to be durable because I somewhat ran out of time. Anyways, the masks are now drying themselves up in the classroom. We plan on painting them in time. Can't wait.