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Travelled to Mountain City, Tennessee for a kid football game. Super small, cute little down. All down their tiny main street are unique scarecrows. It looked liked the people who live there really take Halloween seriously.
This one was my ultimate favorite. It's William Shakespeare. I sweare he almost looks alive! His lips are moist making it look more like a mask.
Love love love!!!!!
Our Daily Challenge 1-9 August : Mask
We had a project when I was teaching where everyone made a mask which they then wore to our Caribbean carnival. This was the one I made
This is just a useful group of some of the latex masks I've made that we set up as a convention display. It's quite handy for demonstrating my approach to prosthetics.
Eventually I'll get the full costumes up on Flickr as well; I've a mountain of pictures and it takes time to process them all.
Extreme Left- Star Trek Ferengi. The special head gear that frames this one makes it a lot easier to put on, with hardly any blending make-up required.
I reckon the same thing occurred to the Star Trek make-up department, since a lot of on-screen Ferengi ended up with back-of-head and neck coifs. I was inspired to do the front face 'frame' by certain elements of Japanese armour as well as the head gear worn by the Wolfriders in the Elfquest comics!
Disguising blending lines with additional costume elements is my favourite technique for walk-around costumes. It's a nuisance to be continually fussing with make-up 'in-the-field', especially when you don't have a crew of on-call make-up assistants to rush up and put you through an emergency pit-stop! I also enjoy the process of creating the additional costume pieces, which tend to be quite elaborate and (small surprise) often involve leather and/or metal.
Extreme Right- My second basic Star Trek Klingon crest-appliance with wig.
The Ferengi experience informed the choice of the leather, studded headband. The jewelled eye-patch grew out of the character, Lord High Admiral (For maximum pomposity you can't beat a Gilbert And Sullivan title!) Gunarhk Moirai of the Imperial Klingon Warfleet.
Back in my hard-core Star Trek fandom days I used to enjoy creating a character for fan-fiction, which would sometimes lead to making a sculpted figurine and/or a costume. Anyway, old Gunarhk lost his eye to an atomic blast. I know, quite primitive by Star Trek standards, but there y'go! By a suspicious coincidence, Star Trek Klingons started turning up with eyepatches around the time I did this costume...General Chang in Star Trek VI being the first I recall. To a Klingon, everything is suspicious....
The wig was commercial synthetic hair, a very fine, expensive grade. I got a couple of different shades and blended it together to get the light colour I wanted, which was very different from my then dark coloured hair. It's attached to the headband of the prosthetic for ease of application. Yes, it does tend to get caught between the segments of the armoured yoke on the Klingon costume but since it's not my hair it doesn't hurt! Which a real Klingon would probably grumble about...
Front-A later Klingon appliance, straight from the mold, with no additional colouring or metalwork.
I eventually promoted the Gunahrk character to Klingon Emperor (by the power vested in me by no one in particular) and decided to give him a new style of head crest. This one was heavily influenced by dinosaur skull ridges; Jurassic Park was big at the time! The appliance has additional, sculpted in scars, lots of slashes, projectile and energy weapon wounds. I very much doubt Klingons would go in for cosmetic surgery, except for espionage purposes. Still, I don't wear an eyepatch with this appliance, so I reckon Gunarhk got himself a transplant...but then he probably found having one eye an inconvenience in battle....
The final appliance has a lot of scale armour riveted to the ridges; wicked!
Both the Klingon appliances came out of double piece molds, the split being right down the centre line of the mold. Of course, once removed from the head cast and sculpted positive the mold halves were rejoined for the latex pour.
The two masks behind the new Klingon appliance in the foreground are from the same mold. The one on the right is my Goblin mask, created for my Labyrinth movie inspired Goblin armour. The tusks are made out of oven-fired Fimo modelling clay, and the mouth opens and closes a little so the tusks clash together. The mask to the immediate left of the new Klingon appliance is from the same Goblin mold, but I poured several different colours of tinted latex in over time to produce an odd effect, sort of like blending different coloured plasticine together. This mask wasn't very durable, and I took advantage of subsequent tears in it by stitching them up with big, evil looking leather thonging. It came in handy as a generic monster mask...not a thousand Hobbit feet removed from an Orc really.
Both of these masks were mounted onto industrial face-shield head harnesses, which I like to use because once the mask is strapped on you never have to touch it again, and if you've set it up right you can even pivot the mask up and out of the way if you want to take a breather. A fine way to be off your face!
The big full head appliance at the rear of the display, right in the middle, is my Predator mask, certainly the most complex molding I've done for a mask, at least so far. It came from a 16 piece mold, and the positive took a month or so to sculpt in clay. The tusks are made from more Fimo. If I did this again I'd probably switch to Super Sculpey, though for bigger tusks, horns and so on I use yet another material. The 'Rasta' tentacles are made from sawdust filled cloth tubes, painted with latex and acrylic.
The mask was inspired by the first Predator movie and by the Dark Horse Alien Versus Predator comics. Eventually I rebuilt the costume to reflect the latter.
Another one of my coworkers again in a surgical mask due to our work's strict mask policy. I wish I could see her smile but I never will 😭
“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
― André Berthiaume
Part of yet another "Warts and all" piece.
I made this many years ago and had such a stong vision right at the start, which is usually a danger sign.
The whole piece is large and shows the transitition from a clay mask to a textile one.
This textile mask is made by heavily embroidering on to water soluble fabric and then applying jute scrim and enamelled pieces.
This texture/mask is free to download and use as you wish, both personally and commercially.
Do not post or distribute, as is.
My first clay mask formed over a rounded river rock using the Carol Zilliacus technique. This mask has a wonderful nose with lots of character, albeit too large for his face! 3"X4"
A Mask I bought in Venice.
This was my first attempt in studio. I should make the lighting more interesting, I think. Or perhaps I should photoshop it a bit. Ah! I never find the time. :"P
"Encontra o caminho aquele que rompe as próprias máscaras, encara a verdade sobre si mesmo, experimenta a amplitude de sua vulnerabilidade e age, superando-se continuamente." Maria Aparecida Giacomini Dóro
Já que no próximo fim de semana é carnaval, eu estava revirando as máscaras e enfeites do ano passado! Na minha cidade só tem um bloco de rua... Mas eu gosto bastante, porque é daqueles bem tradicionais mesmo, com marchinhas antigas, em que você pode ir com toda a família. Não o carnaval de hoje que, infelizmente, se tornou puro marketing do capitalismo!!
Obrigada pelos comentários :)
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.
Rick Warren
That mask. What a great birthday gift. I recently bought a 6d and I never realized what a difference a full frame camera does make. This is part of my new strange series -- and by series I mean life.
4th May 2013 This was a full head latex badger mask I created last spring...... Sadly I got the sizing wrong, and it was way too tight for my head.......
In this photo I'm trying it out, the unpainted and as yet jawless mask. The jaw I'm holding on with my hand......
It was difficult to hold my eyes open, they were being so squashed by the mask.......
One thing I like very much in Sichuan is the "Changing Mask ance" I love the lively song they play when they changing mask... so fast and at a blink of an eye, they change the mask on their face. All mask are colorful just like these souveneir masks. One of fame of Sichuan and I also like Sichuan food.
Shot was taken at the souveneir corner at the temple that worships Li Ping, the great wiseman who at old time built the dam to divert water to Sichuan by dividing water using structure like fish mouth and digged another river by cutting the rocky mountain using fire to heat and water to cold to accelerate the decaying of rock. All are done by the help of people in the city he was a governor.
This dam lasts and is used till present and the place is one of UNESCO World Heritage.. The place and the mountain is the location of history in the Three Kingdom era too, if I dont remember it wrong.
I really like this place and would like to stay longer, for its lovely and poetic city. I am sad to know this place, the nearest place to earthquake center was severely damaged and schools collpased taking away many children's lives.
The world is wide and the places I once stepped are all special for me.. that once in life I was there and those memories remain lifetime...
Li Ping Temple
Dujiangyuan
Sichuan, China
The Black Mask, one of the least known Batman/Nightwing villains, Black Mask is a kingpin gangster who wears a skull mask. Yep. That's about it. For this fig, no custom pieces or decals, all legit Lego. So there he is. Black Mask.
Comments and feedback are appreciated :)
Did this mask up for a friend's Killinger costume. Cast plastic!
I will make blank versions of this available in my store in a few weeks. I'm hesitant to offer painted versions to avoid stepping on any toes. It would also make a great Dia De Los Muertos style mask...